China blocks India-US proposal to list Pak-based terrorist Abdul Rehman Makki under UNSC sanctions

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United Nations, Jun 17: China has put a maintain within the UN on the final second on a joint proposal by India and the US to listing Pakistan-based militant Abdul Rehman Makki as a world terrorist underneath Al Qaida Sanctions Committee of the Safety Council.

Makki is a US-designated terrorist and brother-in-law of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed. It’s learnt that New Delhi and Washington had put a joint proposal to designate Makki as a world terrorist underneath the 1267 ISIL and Al Qaida Sanctions Committee of the UN Safety Council however Beijing positioned a maintain on this proposal on the final minute right here. Earlier additionally, China, an all-weather good friend of Islamabad, has positioned holds and blocks on bids by India and its allies to listing Pakistan-based terrorists.

In Could 2019, India had received an enormous diplomatic win on the UN when the worldwide physique designated Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar as a “world terrorist”, a decade after New Delhi had first approached the world physique on the difficulty. A veto-wielding everlasting member of the UN Safety Council, China was the only hold-out within the 15-nation physique on the bid to blacklist Azhar, blocking makes an attempt by putting a “technical maintain”. All selections of the committee are taken by consensus. In 2009, India had moved a proposal by itself to designate Azhar.

In 2016 once more India moved the proposal with the P3 – the US, the UK and France within the UN’s 1267 Sanctions Committee to ban Azhar, additionally the mastermind of the assault on the air base in Pathankot in January 2016. In 2017, the P3 nations moved an analogous proposal once more. Nonetheless, on all events, China, a veto-wielding everlasting member of the Safety Council, blocked India’s proposal from being adopted by the sanctions committee. Maintaining the worldwide strain to designate Azhar as a world terrorist, the US, supported by France and the UK, had moved a draft decision immediately within the UN Safety Council to blacklist him.

In November 2010, the US Division of the Treasury had designated Makki as a Specifically Designated World Terrorist. On account of this designation, amongst different penalties, all property, and pursuits in property, of Makki which might be topic to US jurisdiction are blocked, and US individuals are usually prohibited from partaking in any transactions with Makki. “As well as, it’s a crime to knowingly present, or try or conspire to offer, materials assist or sources to the Overseas Terrorist Organisation LeT,” the US mentioned.

The US Division of State’s Rewards for Justice programme is providing a reward of as much as USD 2 million for data on Makki, “often known as Abdulrahman Maki. Makki has occupied varied management roles inside Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a US-designated Overseas Terrorist Organisation (FTO). He has additionally performed a job in elevating funds for LeT operations. “In 2020, a Pakistani anti-terrorism court docket convicted Makki on one rely of terrorism financing and sentenced him to jail.

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The US continues to hunt data on Makki as a result of the Pakistani judicial system has launched convicted LeT leaders and operatives up to now,” in response to data on the Rewards for Justice web site.

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