China blocks transfer to listing LeT deputy chief Abdul Makki as world terrorist

China has placed on “technical hold” the proposal to listing Lashkar-e-Toiba’s (LeT) deputy chief Abdul Rehman Makki as a world terrorist, sources mentioned on Friday. India and the US had collectively proposed to listing Makki on the United Nations.

Sources mentioned India and the US collectively proposed on June 1, 2022 to listing Pakistan-based terrorist Abdul Rehman Makki below the UN Security Council’s Al Qaeda (Dae’sh) and ISIL Sanctions Committee, also called the UNSC 1267 Committee. Both India and the US have already listed Makki as a terrorist below their home legal guidelines.

Abdul Rehman Makki is the deputy amir/chief and head of the political affairs of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)/Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD), which itself is a UN-proscribed terrorist entity. He additionally served as head of LeT’s overseas relations division. He is a member of the shura (governing physique) in addition to a member of JuD’s central and proselytizing crew. He is the brother-in-law of LeT/JuD chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, who’s a UN-proscribed terrorist.

Sources mentioned Makki has been concerned in elevating funds, radicalising and recruiting youths for violence and to plan assaults in India, notably in Jammu and Kashmir. While Makki was holding management positions in LeT and JuD, the LeT has been chargeable for and had involvement in outstanding assaults in India such because the 26/11 Mumbai terror assault, Red Fort assault on December 22, 2000, Rampur CRPF camp assault on January 1, 2008, Karan Nagar (Srinagar) assault on February 12-13, 2018, Khanpora (Baramulla) assault on May 30, 2018, Srinagar assault on June 14, 2018 and Gurez/Bandipora assault on August 7, 2018.

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Makki was reportedly arrested by the Pakistan authorities on May 15, 2019 and was saved below home arrest in Lahore. In 2020, he was convicted of terror financing and was sentenced to jail by a Pakistani courtroom.

The proposal to listing Makki below the UN Security Council sanctions regime was circulated to all members of the council’s 1267 Committee below a no-objection process until 16 June 2022. “Regrettably, on June 16, 2022, China placed a “technical hold” on the proposal to listing Makki. This measure (which might final for as much as 6 months at a time) blocks the adoption of the itemizing proposal until the maintain is withdrawn,” a supply mentioned.

“This decision by China is extremely unfortunate given the overwhelming evidence against Makki. Moreover, it runs counter to China’s claims of combating terrorism,” the supply mentioned.

This is just not the primary time that China has positioned hurdles for the itemizing of recognized terrorists. In the previous, it had repeatedly blocked proposals to designate Maulana Masood Azhar, chief of Pakistan-based and UN-proscribed terrorist entity Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM).

The supply mentioned, “China should reflect on its response that signals double standards on combating terrorism. Protecting well-known terrorists from sanctioning in this manner will only undermine its credibility and risk exposing even itself more to the growing threat of terrorism”.