Nov 26, 2023, 09:26 PM IST
Over the years, China has blocked numerous moves by India and its partners to designate Pakistan-based terrorists under the 1267 Al-Qaeda sanctions committee at the United Nations Security Council.
On September 6, 2022, the US, along with India, submitted a proposal to include Sajid Mir, aka Wasi bhai, on the 1267 list before the Sanctions Committee. Beijing initially blocked the proposal on September 15, 2022, and extended the hold until June 20, 2023.
Another proposal submitted by India & US on June 1, 2022, aimed to designate Abdul Rehman Makki, the financier and ideologue of the 26/11 attack. China placed the proposal on hold on June 16, 2022 until it reluctantly lifted the hold on January 16, 2023.
China also blocked efforts by the US and India to designate LeT’s propaganda wing member Shahid Mehmood as a global terrorist.
China also objected to the efforts of US and India to get Talha Saeed, son of UN-designated terrorist Hafiz Saeed, enlisted on the Sanctions Committee list in October and November of 2022.
China also kept shielding Masood Azhar, the founder and leader of the Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), for three years at the UNSC before finally giving up in May 2019.
The proposal to designate Masood Azhar’s brother Abdul Rauf Asghar Alvi, the chief operational commander of JeM, submitted by the US and India, as global terrorist is still facing Chinese hurdles at the UN.