Rauf Azhar, who is the brother of Masood Azhar, was banned by the US in December 2010.
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China has objected to India’s proposal to blacklist Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist Abdul Rauf Azhar in the United Nations Security Council.
Jaish chief Masood Azhar’s brother, Abdul Rauf, born in Pakistan in 1974, has been involved in planning and executing several terror attacks in India, including the hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC814 in 1999, the Parliament attack in 2001 attacks and targeting terrorists. IAF Base in Pathankot in 2016.
It is learned that China objected to India’s proposal to add JeM’s Abdul Rauf to the UN Security Council’s 1267 ISIL and Al Qaeda sanctions list.
Rauf Azhar was banned by the US in December 2010. In August last year, China, a permanent, veto-powerful member of the UN Security Council, blocked a proposal by India and the US to designate Rauf Azhar as a global terrorist. Terrorist and his property subject to confiscation, travel ban and arms embargo.
Islamabad’s all-weather friend Beijing last year blocked proposals to blacklist Pakistan-based terrorists Hafiz Talha Saeed, Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Shahid Mehmood and Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Sajid Mir under the Al Qaeda sanctions regime. ,
In June last year, China blocked a joint proposal by India and the US to nominate Abdul Rehman Makki, deputy chief of Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, under the 1267 Sanctions Committee.
However, in January this year, Makki, the head of JuD/LeT’s political affairs wing and brother-in-law of Lashkar chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, was declared a global terrorist by the United Nations after China tightened its grip on united India. – The US proposed blacklisting him, paving the way for the Security Council’s Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee to list him unanimously.
During India’s presidency of the UN Security Council in December 2022, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in his remarks at the Council’s briefing on ‘Global Counter-Terrorism Approach: Challenges and the Way Forward’ called out Pakistan and China, saying that “terrorism The contemporary epicenter of Too many proactive and “evidence-backed proposals” to blacklist terrorists under the sanctions regime are blocked without sufficient reason.
“At one level, we have seen protections that come close to justification. Then, there are evidence-backed proposals that are put on hold without giving sufficient reasons. In contrast, even anonymity resorted to so as to avoid taking ownership of unconfirmed property cases,” Jaishankar had said.
The US Treasury Department in December 2010 designated Abdul Rauf Azhar, a senior leader of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), for acting for or on behalf of JeM. The US said that as a senior leader of JeM, Abdul Rauf Azhar “has urged Pakistanis to engage in terrorist activities”. As one and served as intelligence coordinator of JEM. In 2008. Azhar was tasked with organizing suicide attacks in India. He was also involved with JEM’s political wing and a JEM involved in training camps served as an officer.
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