China objects to India’s proposal to blacklist Jaish-e Mohammed chief Abdul Rauf Azhar at UN

By Press Trust of India: China has objected to a proposal by India to blacklist senior Pakistan-based Jaish-e Mohammed (JeM) terrorist Abdul Rauf Azhar on the United Nations Security Council.

Brother of JeM chief Masood Azhar, Abdul Rauf, born in 1974 in Pakistan, has been involved in planning and executing fairly just a few terror strikes in India along with the hijacking of Indian Airlines aircraft IC814 in 1999, the assault on the Parliament in 2001 and the specializing in of the IAF base in Pathankot in 2016.

It is found that China objected to the proposal from India in order so as to add Abdul Rauf of the JeM to the UN Security Council’s 1267 ISIL and Al Qaida Sanctions guidelines.

Rauf Azhar was sanctioned by the US in December 2010.

In August closing 12 months, China, a eternal, veto-wielding member of the UN Security Council, had put a keep on the proposal by India and the US to designate Rauf Azhar as a world terrorist and matter him to belongings freeze, journey ban and arms embargo.

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Beijing, an all-weather good pal of Islamabad, had closing 12 months put holds on proposals to blacklist Pakistan-based terrorists Hafiz Talah Saeed, Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Shahid Mahmood and Lashkar-e-Tayyiba terrorist Sajid Mir under the Al Qaeda Sanctions regime.

In June closing 12 months, China put a keep on a joint proposal by India and the US to designate Abdul Rehman Makki, the deputy chief of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba under the 1267 sanctions committee.

In January this 12 months however, Makki, the top of the political affairs wing of JuD/LeT and the brother-in-law of LeT chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, was designated a world terrorist by the UN after China lifted its keep on the joint India-US proposal to blacklist him, paving the best way through which for the Security Council’s Al Qaeda sanctions committee to guidelines him by the use of consensus.

During India’s Presidency of the UN Security Council in December 2022, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar referred to as out Pakistan and China in his remarks to the Council briefing on ‘Global Counterterrorism Approach: Challenges and Way Forward’, saying the “contemporary epicentre of terrorism” stays very loads full of life and “evidence-backed proposals” to blacklist terrorists under sanctions regimes are positioned on keep with out assigning sufficient motive.

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