Pakistan-based deputy chief of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) Abdul Rehman Makki has been designated as a gloabal terrorist by the United Nations. AFP.

New Delhi: India in its UNSC tenure throughout 2021-22 had submitted 5 names, together with Lashkar-e-Taiba deputy chief Abdul Rehman Makki, in its listings of Pakistan based mostly terrorists that it sought to be blacklisted. Back then, China positioned a technical maintain, whereas all the opposite 14 members of the Council agreed to their listings.

On Monday, China, launched the technical maintain, lastly enabling the UN Security Council’s 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee so as to add 68-year-old Abdul Rehman Makki to its listing of designated terrorists.

Those within the listing are topic to the property freeze, journey ban, and arms embargo.

China has been persistent in shielding its “all-weather” ally Pakistan at the us. Earlier, officers from Beijing claimed that the strikes by India, the US and different international locations to sanction Pakistani terrorists was a mere observe of “targeting” its ally.

5 names submitted by India

The names submitted by India beneath 1267 throughout 2022 included Abdul Rehman Makki (LeT), Abdul Rauf Asghar (JeM), Sajid Mir (LeT), Shahid Mahmood (LeT), Talha Saeed (LeT).

Each of those names had been initially positioned on technical maintain by China. Makki’s identify was submitted on 1 June, 2022 by India with US becoming a member of as a co-designate state.

China, on 16 June, 2022, positioned a technical maintain and after 6-month interval, it once more renewed its maintain in mid-December.

Makki had beforehand escaped designation beneath UNSC Resolution 1267 in 2008.

After some months, Makki together with his speeches threatening violence in India, earned a spot within the listing of the US Treasury Department of designated and sanctioned terrorists in November 2010.

China praises Pak’s counterterrorism

China stated that the designation by the us ISIL and Al Qaida Sanctions Committee (additionally known as the 1267 Committee after the sanctions decision adopted in 1999), was “a recognition” of Pakistan’s file in combating terror.

When requested about China’s U-turn and lifting the technical maintain that it positioned final 12 months, Beijing’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin stated: “Terrorism is the common enemy of humanity. The 1267 Committee is an important international counterterrorism mechanism.”

He additional stated that the itemizing of terrorists or terror organisations is “conducive to enhancing international counterterrorism cooperation in response to terrorists’ threats”.

“The relevant people have been convicted and sentenced by Pakistan. The listing also shows Pakistan’s firm combat against terrorism. It is a recognition,” Wang stated.

1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee

The 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee is a part of the UN Security Council that implements worldwide sanctions towards terrorists.

The committee was established on 15 October, 1999, because the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee, after Security Council Resolution 1267 designated al-Qaeda and the Taliban as terrorist our bodies. However, in 2011, a separate committee was shaped for the Taliban.

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