China places maintain on proposal to blacklist Pakistan-based LeT terrorist Hafiz Talha Saeed

A day after blocking the proposal to designate Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Shahid Mahmood as a worldwide terrorist, China has positioned a technical maintain on a proposal by India and the US on the United Nations to blacklist Hafiz Talah Saeed, the son of Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed. 

United Nations,UPDATED: Oct 20, 2022 00:34 IST

Hafiz Talha Saeed (left) is a key chief of the dreaded terrorist group LeT and the son of 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults mastermind Hafiz Saeed (proper).

By Geeta Mohan: A day after blocking the proposal to designate Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Shahid Mahmood as a worldwide terrorist, China has positioned a technical maintain on a proposal by India and the US on the United Nations to blacklist Hafiz Talah Saeed, the son of Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed.

It is the second time in lower than two days that Beijing put a maintain on the bid submitted by India and the US to designate a Pakistan-based terrorist as a worldwide terrorist.

A day in the past, China put a maintain on the proposal by India and the US to designate Mahmood (42) as a worldwide terrorist underneath the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council.

This is the fifth time in 4 months that China has put a maintain on itemizing proposals to designate Pakistan-based terrorists underneath the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee regime.

Hafiz Talha Saeed (46) is a key chief of the dreaded terrorist group LeT and the son of 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults mastermind Hafiz Saeed.

Declaring him as a terrorist, the Union Home Ministry got here out with a notification in April this yr which stated that Hafiz Talha Saeed has been actively concerned in recruitment, fund assortment, and planning and executing assaults by the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in India and Indian pursuits in Afghanistan.

He has additionally been actively visiting numerous LeT centres throughout Pakistan, and propagated jihad in opposition to India, Israel, the USA and Indian pursuits in different western nations whereas delivering sermons, the Home Ministry’s assertion had stated.

Hafiz Talha Saeed is a senior chief of the LeT and is the pinnacle of the cleric wing of the terrorist organisation.

Although Beijing blocked the proposal by India and US to designate Mahmood as a worldwide terrorist, the US Department of Treasury had designated Mahmood in addition to one other LeT chief Muhammad Sarwar in December 2016 as a part of motion “to disrupt Lashkar-e Tayyiba’s (LeT) fundraising and support networks.”

According to data on the US Department of the Treasury’s web site, Mahmood “has been a longstanding senior LeT member based in Karachi, Pakistan, and has been affiliated with the group since at least 2007. As early as June 2015 through at least June 2016, Mahmood served as the vice chairman of Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), a humanitarian and fundraising arm of LeT.”

In 2014, Mahmood was the chief of FIF in Karachi. In August 2013, Mahmood was recognized as a LeT publications wing member, the web site stated.

“Mahmood was previously part of LeT’s overseas operations team led by Sajjid Mir. Additionally, in August 2013, Mahmood was instructed to forge covert links with Islamic organizations in Bangladesh and Burma, and as of late 2011, Mahmood claimed that LeT’s primary concern should be attacking India and America,” the US Department of Treasury stated.