Rauf Azhar, who’s brother of Masood Azhar, was sanctioned by the US in December 2010.

United Nations:

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 concerned in planning and executing quite a few terror strikes in India together with the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane IC814 in 1999, the assault on the Parliament in 2001 and the concentrating on of the IAF base in Pathankot in 2016.

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

Rauf Azhar was sanctioned by the US in December 2010. In August final yr, China, a everlasting, veto-wielding member of the UN Security Council, had put a maintain on the proposal by India and the US to designate Rauf Azhar as a world terrorist and topic him to property freeze, journey ban and arms embargo.

Beijing, an all-weather good friend of Islamabad, had final yr 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 underneath the Al Qaeda Sanctions regime.

In June final yr, China put a maintain 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 underneath the 1267 sanctions committee.

In January this yr nonetheless, 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 maintain on the joint India-US proposal to blacklist him, paving the best way for the Security Council’s Al Qaeda sanctions committee to record him by consensus.

During India’s Presidency of the UN Security Council in December 2022, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar known 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 a lot energetic and “evidence-backed proposals” to blacklist terrorists underneath sanctions regimes are placed on maintain with out assigning sufficient cause.

“At one level, we have seen protections that come close to justification. Then, there are evidence-backed proposals that are put on hold without assigning adequate reason. Conversely, there has even been recourse to anonymity so as to avoid taking ownership of untenable cases,” Jaishankar had mentioned.

The US Department of Treasury had 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 mentioned as a senior chief of JeM, Abdul Rauf Azhar “has urged Pakistanis to engage in militant activities. He served as JEM’s acting leader in 2007, as one of JEM’s most senior commanders in India, and as JEM’s intelligence coordinator. In 2008 Azhar was assigned to organize suicide attacks in India. He was also involved with JEM’s political wing and has served as a JEM official involved with training camps.”

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