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United Nations, October 19

China on Wednesday put a maintain on a proposal by India and the US on the United Nations to blacklist Pakistan-based militant Hafiz Talah Saeed, the son of Lashkar-e-Toiba chief Hafiz Saeed, within the second such transfer inside two days.

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.

In April this yr, he had been declared a terrorist by the Indian authorities.

It is learnt that China positioned the maintain on the proposal beneath the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council.

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.

In a notification, India’s Home Ministry had mentioned that Hafiz Talha Saeed, 46, 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 varied LeT centres throughout Pakistan, and through his sermons propagating for jihad towards India, Israel, the United States of America and Indian pursuits in different western international locations, it had acknowledged.

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

China on Tuesday put a maintain on a proposal by India and the US on the United Nations to record Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba chief Shahid Mahmood as a worldwide terrorist.

Beijing positioned a maintain on the proposal by India and the US to designate Mahmood, 42, as a worldwide terrorist beneath the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council.

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 info 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 mentioned.

“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 mentioned.

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