China on Tuesday defended its transfer to elevate a technical maintain resulting in the designation of Pakistan-based prime LeT chief Abdul Rehman Makki as a world terrorist, saying that itemizing of terrorists is conducive to enhancing international counterterrorism cooperation and praised Islamabad for backing counter-terrorism efforts.

Makki, the 68-year-old brother-in-law of Jamat-ud Dawa (JuD) chief and Mumbai assault mastermind Hafiz Saeed, was designated a world terrorist by the UN after China lifted its maintain on a joint India-US proposal to blacklist the deputy chief of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

The UN Security Council’s 1267 ISIL (Da’esh) and Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee added Makki to its listing of designated terrorists on Monday, subjecting him to an asset freeze, journey ban and arms embargo, after years of efforts by India and its allies.

“Terrorism is the common enemy of humanity,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a media briefing here when asked about China’s decision to lift its objections to India and US move to declare Makki a global terrorist and whether Beijing will also back similar moves against four other Pakistan based terrorists pending with the Committee.

“The 1267 Committee (of the UN Security Council) is an important international counterterrorism mechanism” and itemizing of terrorists or terror organisations below the aegis of the UN is conducive to enhancing worldwide counterterrorism cooperation in response to terrorist threats, he mentioned.

“The relevant people have been convicted and sentenced by Pakistan. The listing also shows Pakistan’s firm combat against terrorism, it is a recognition,” he mentioned, with out elaborating why China, a detailed ally of Pakistan, determined to place a technical hurdle within the first place.

China has at all times been taking part within the 1267 Committee’s work in a constructive and accountable method in keeping with the requirements and procedures of the committee, he mentioned.

Makki was amongst numerous Pakistan-based terrorists which China through the years sought to dam their itemizing as international terrorists.

In May 2019, India secured an enormous diplomatic victory on the UN when the worldwide physique designated Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar a “international terrorist” after Beijing lifted its objections.

China’s move to remove its objections to Makki’s UN listing comes as its new Foreign Minister Qin Gang began his tenure. Qin, who was previously China’s envoy to the US, succeeded Wang Yi.

China’s attempts to put technical holds on the declaration of Pakistan-based terrorists over the years have become a major irritant in the troubled ties between Beijing and New Delhi.

It also comes at a time India and China sought to resolve the military standoff in Eastern Ladakh through high-level military and diplomatic dialogue. The two countries have held 17 rounds of talks to work out the disengagement of troops from several points of friction in eastern Ladakh.

Makki’s listing as a global terrorist comes seven months after China had put a hold on June 16, 2022, on a joint proposal by India and the US to designate the head of the political affairs wing of JuD/LeT.

Decisions to listing people and entities below the 1267 sanctions committee are made by means of consensus.

Of the 15 Security Council members that make up the Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee, veto-wielding permanent member China was the sole hold-out during the process to list Makki.

With China finally lifting its hold, Makki was designated as a “global terrorist” by means of consensus.

China has repeatedly positioned holds and blocks on bids by India and its allies to listing Pakistan-based terrorists.

The Sanctions Committee supplied a story abstract of causes for Makki’s itemizing by which it mentioned he and different LeT/JuD operatives have been concerned in elevating funds, recruiting and radicalising youth to violence and planning assaults in India, significantly in Jammu and Kashmir.

The UN mentioned in a press launch Makki is deputy Amir/Chief of LeT a.ok.a JuD and Head of the Political Affairs Wing JuD/LeT. He additionally served as head of LeT’s overseas relations division and a member of Shura (governing physique).

Makki, born in Bahawalpur, Punjab Province of Pakistan, is a US-designated terrorist.

He was arrested on May 15, 2019, in Pakistan and positioned below home arrest in Lahore. In 2020, a Pakistani courtroom convicted Makki of terrorism financing and sentenced him to jail, the sanctions committee mentioned.

The sanctions committee mentioned that while Makki has held his management positions inside LeT and JuD, LeT has been answerable for or had involvement in distinguished assaults together with the Red Fort assault by which six LeT terrorists had stormed Red Fort on December 22, 2000, and had opened indiscriminate hearth on the safety forces guarding the Fort.

Describing the 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults as probably the most audacious assault by LeT in India, the committee mentioned 10 LeT terrorists from Pakistan entered through the Arabian Sea in Mumbai with pre-decided targets out of which Ajmal Kasab was caught alive, the remainder have been killed.

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