In what might be described as successful in India’s struggle in opposition to terrorism, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Monday evening listed Abdul Rehman Makki, a Pakistan-based terrorist, as a global terrorist below its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee.

In a press release, the us mentioned, “On 16 January 2023, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning ISIL (Da’esh), Al-Qaeda, and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities approved the addition of the entry specified below to its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2610 (2021) and adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.”

Listing Makki as a global terrorist comes after India and the United States already listed him as a terrorist below their home legal guidelines.

Let’s take a more in-depth have a look at who precisely is Abdul Rehman Makki and his resume of terror actions.

Who is Abdul Rehman Makki?

Abdul Rehman Makki believed to be born in 1954 is the brother-in-law of 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults mastermind Hafiz Saeed. Makki is reported to maintain numerous management roles throughout the Lashkar-e-Taiba, the US-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.

Makki is thought by many names — Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki; Hafaz Abdul Rahman Maki; Abdulrahman Makki; Hafiz Abdul Rehman, in accordance to the US Rewards for Justice programme. He additionally carries a worth of $2 million (Rs 163 crore).

According to Indian safety officers, Makki is the financier of the LeT and he’s liable for elevating funds for the LeT’s operations. India additionally accuses Makki of being concerned in radicalising and recruiting younger males to assault India, significantly Jammu and Kashmir.

Before 2019 when Hafiz Saeed was arrested and jailed for 35 years in Pakistan, Makki was a shadow of the LeT chief and is believed to be very shut to him. The Indian Express studies that Makki was a silent presence throughout all of Saeed’s listening to in courtroom.

Known to be a fiery speaker, Makki earned the highlight in February 2010 when he mentioned at a rally that there could be “rivers of blood” in India for not handing over Kashmir to Pakistan.

Nine months later in the identical yr, his speeches inciting hate and violence earned him a spot on the US Treasury Department’s listing of designated and sanctioned terrorists.

In 2020, a Pakistani anti-terrorism courtroom convicted Makki on one rely of terrorism financing and sentenced him to jail, in accordance to the US State Department.

As per a News18 report, Makki additionally deliberate the next assaults: The 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults, the 2000 Red Fort Attack, the 2008 CRPF assault, the 2018 Khanpora (Baramulla) assault, the 2018 Srinagar assault and August 2018 Gurez/Bandipora assault.

Long highway to terrorist tag

The UNSC’s choice to designate Makki as a global terrorist has been lengthy and winding.

Earlier in June 2022, China, a veto-wielding everlasting member of the UN Security Council, had blocked India and the US’ proposal to listing him as a terrorist. Reports had then acknowledged that the proposal to listing Makki below the UN Security Council sanctions regime was circulated to all members of the council’s 1267 Committee below a no-objection process. But, China positioned a “technical hold” on the proposal to listing Makki.

A supply had then been quoted as saying, “This decision by China is extremely unfortunate given the overwhelming evidence against Makki. Moreover, it runs counter to China’s claims of combating terrorism.”

The supply had additional mentioned, “China should reflect on its response that signals double standards on combating terrorism. Protecting well-known terrorists from sanctioning in this manner will only undermine its credibility and risk exposing even itself more to the growing threat of terrorism”.

China’s repeated blocks

However, this isn’t the primary occasion of China ‘shielding’ terrorists. Since March 2019, Beijing has blocked India’s 5 makes an attempt of designating people as global terrorists. In October final yr, Beijing had blocked a proposal by India and the US on the UN to listing LeT’s Shahid Mahmood as a global terrorist.

Prior to that, India’s transfer to place LeT’s Sajid Mir, recognized to have performed a key position within the 26/11 assaults, was additionally thwarted by China. Similarly in August, China blocked a proposal to blacklist the senior Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) deputy chief Abdul Rauf Azhar. And in March 2019, China had prevented a UNSC committee from blacklisting Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) Masood Azhar.

China has made it a behavior of protecting Pakistan-based terrorists and plenty of imagine it’s Beijing’s manner of destabilising India. Moreover, Pakistan is an in depth ally of China — it accounts for practically 47 per cent of the latter’s arms exports and when it comes to commerce is the second largest associate after the United States.

As The Quint writes, China helps Pakistan as a result of it needs to safe its border with Afghanistan and it is aware of that Islamabad has appreciable affect within the politics and safety of Afghanistan and would really like to make use of that leverage to meet its personal ends.

With inputs from businesses

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