‘Most uncalled for’: India on China blocking transfer to designate JeM chief as world terrorist
4 min readBy PTI
NEW DELHI: India on Friday described as “most uncalled for” China blocking a proposal on the UN Security Council to designate Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) deputy chief Abdul Rauf Azhar as a world terrorist.
Reacting to China’s transfer, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi stated India has famous with “regret” {that a} “technical hold” has been positioned on the proposal, including the worldwide neighborhood has been unable to talk in a single widespread voice in preventing terrorism.
He asserted that New Delhi will proceed to pursue its principled place of bringing such terrorists to justice.
“It is unfortunate that when it comes to our collective battle against terrorism, the international community has been unable to speak in one common voice,” Bagchi stated.
China on Wednesday put technical maintain on the joint proposal on the UN Security Council by India and the US to designate the JeM chief, who’s the youthful brother of the group’s chief Masood Azhar.
All different 14 member states of the highest UN physique supported the proposal.
Bagchi stated Abdul Rauf is the deputy chief of JeM which is a UN proscribed entity.
He was actively concerned in terrorist strikes such because the hijacking of Indian airways IC 814 in 1999, the assault on the Indian Parliament in 2001 and on an Indian Army camp in Kathua in 2014.
“He has been proscribed under Indian and US laws already, and therefore the placing of the ‘technical hold’ against such wanted terrorist is most uncalled for,” Bagchi stated.
The designation of Abdul Rauf would have resulted in a world journey ban on him in addition to requiring Pakistan to freeze his belongings and to chop off his entry to weapons and associated supplies.
“India will continue pursuing its principled position of bringing these terrorists to justice, including through the UNSC 1267 Sanctions regime,” Bagchi stated.
He additionally referred to feedback by Ruchira Kamboj, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, throughout an open debate on the UN Security Council on August 9.
Kamboj stated there must be no double requirements in coping with terrorists and that the follow of inserting holds and blocks with out giving any justification should finish.
She stated it’s most regrettable that real and evidence-based itemizing proposals pertaining to among the most infamous terrorists on this planet are being positioned on maintain.
Kamboj stated double requirements and persevering with politicisation have rendered the credibility of the sanctions regime at an all-time low, Bagchi quoted her as saying.
The Chinese motion got here lower than a month after Beijing blocked an analogous joint proposal by India and the US to blacklist the Pakistan-based deputy chief of Lashkar-e-Taiba Abdul Rehman Makki.
Makki too has been concerned in elevating funds, recruiting and radicalising youths to resort to violence and planning and executing assaults in India, together with the Mumbai terror strikes.
NEW DELHI: India on Friday described as “most uncalled for” China blocking a proposal on the UN Security Council to designate Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) deputy chief Abdul Rauf Azhar as a world terrorist.
Reacting to China’s transfer, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi stated India has famous with “regret” {that a} “technical hold” has been positioned on the proposal, including the worldwide neighborhood has been unable to talk in a single widespread voice in preventing terrorism.
He asserted that New Delhi will proceed to pursue its principled place of bringing such terrorists to justice.
“It is unfortunate that when it comes to our collective battle against terrorism, the international community has been unable to speak in one common voice,” Bagchi stated.
China on Wednesday put technical maintain on the joint proposal on the UN Security Council by India and the US to designate the JeM chief, who’s the youthful brother of the group’s chief Masood Azhar.
All different 14 member states of the highest UN physique supported the proposal.
Bagchi stated Abdul Rauf is the deputy chief of JeM which is a UN proscribed entity.
He was actively concerned in terrorist strikes such because the hijacking of Indian airways IC 814 in 1999, the assault on the Indian Parliament in 2001 and on an Indian Army camp in Kathua in 2014.
“He has been proscribed under Indian and US laws already, and therefore the placing of the ‘technical hold’ against such wanted terrorist is most uncalled for,” Bagchi stated.
The designation of Abdul Rauf would have resulted in a world journey ban on him in addition to requiring Pakistan to freeze his belongings and to chop off his entry to weapons and associated supplies.
“India will continue pursuing its principled position of bringing these terrorists to justice, including through the UNSC 1267 Sanctions regime,” Bagchi stated.
He additionally referred to feedback by Ruchira Kamboj, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, throughout an open debate on the UN Security Council on August 9.
Kamboj stated there must be no double requirements in coping with terrorists and that the follow of inserting holds and blocks with out giving any justification should finish.
She stated it’s most regrettable that real and evidence-based itemizing proposals pertaining to among the most infamous terrorists on this planet are being positioned on maintain.
Kamboj stated double requirements and persevering with politicisation have rendered the credibility of the sanctions regime at an all-time low, Bagchi quoted her as saying.
The Chinese motion got here lower than a month after Beijing blocked an analogous joint proposal by India and the US to blacklist the Pakistan-based deputy chief of Lashkar-e-Taiba Abdul Rehman Makki.
Makki too has been concerned in elevating funds, recruiting and radicalising youths to resort to violence and planning and executing assaults in India, together with the Mumbai terror strikes.
