On January 19, Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba’s (LeT) deputy chief Abdul Rehman Makki launched a video from the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore, denying any links with Al-Qaeda.

Abdul Rehman Makki stated, “I believe that the grounds for my listing are based on heresy and disinformation by the Indian government. I never met Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Al-Zawahiri or Abdullah Azam as alleged by some propaganda reports,”. He additionally denounced the views and actions of Al-Qaeda and stated that it was the alternative of what he believed in.”I denounce every kind of terrorism and violence perpetrated by such teams. I imagine within the principal place of the Pakistani authorities relating to Kashmir…,” he added.

He regretted the UN Security Council’s choice, saying: “No due process was followed or information was provided regarding these listings.”Notably, India’s relentless efforts to record Pakistan-based terrorists paid off as Makki was lastly listed as a ‘global terrorist’.

India has made Pakistani terrorist lists a prime precedence of its United Nations tenure throughout 2021-22, in accordance with the sources.

India submitted a complete of 5 names for designation underneath 1267 in 2022: Abdul Rehman Makki (LeT), Abdul Rauf Asghar (Jaish-e-Mohammed, JeM), Sajid Mir (LeT), Shahid Mahmood (LeT), and Talha Saeed (LeT).
Each of those 5 names was initially positioned on technical maintain by one member state whereas all different 14 members of the Council agreed to their itemizing.

The Makki case was filed by India on June 1, 2022, with the United States as a co-designator. According to the sources, one member state positioned a technical maintain on June 16, 2022, and after six months, once more renewed its maintain in mid-December.Although success on the record got here shortly after India’s departure from the Council, this was a fruits of long-standing and chronic efforts made during the last a number of months, alongside with associate nations.

On January 17, China lastly lifted its ‘technical hold’ on the designation of Makki as a global terrorist underneath the 1267 UN Sanctions Committee after leaving the nation remoted within the Security Council.

This itemizing comes after China final 12 months put a ‘technical hold’ on India’s bid to call the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief a global terrorist. In June 2022, India slammed China after it blocked the proposal to record terrorist Abdul Rehman Makki underneath the Sanctions Committee, also referred to as the us 1267 Committee.

The UN in a press release stated, “On January 16 2023, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning ISIL (Da’esh), Al-Qaida, 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,”.

India and the United States have already listed Makki as terrorists underneath their home legal guidelines. He has been concerned in fundraising, recruiting and radicalizing youth into violence and planning assaults in India, significantly in Jammu and Kashmir.

Makki has held numerous management positions at LeT, the United States Designated Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO), whereas additionally enjoying a task in elevating funds for LeT operations.

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