{"id":310416,"date":"2019-03-14T04:30:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T04:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310416"},"modified":"2019-03-14T04:30:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T04:30:27","slug":"india-disappointed-as-china-blocks-bid-at-un-to-list-masood-azhar-as-global-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-disappointed-as-china-blocks-bid-at-un-to-list-masood-azhar-as-global-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"India disappointed as China blocks bid at UN to list Masood Azhar as global terrorist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310163 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/azhar-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/azhar-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/azhar.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">China, for the fourth time, put a technical hold to tag Jaish-e Mohammad chief Masood Azhar as a &#8220;global terrorist&#8221; by the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The proposal to designate Masood Azhar under the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council was moved by the UK, France and the US on February 27, days after Pulwama terror attack which killed at least 40 CRPF soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) had claimed the responsibility of the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The ministry of external affairs in a statement said it was disappointed by the outcome.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe 1267 Sanctions Committee upon completion of the no-objection period on March 13 was not able to come to a decision on the proposal for listing Mohammed Masood Azhar under the UN Sanctions regime, on account of a member placing the proposal on hold,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe are disappointed by this outcome. This has prevented action by the international community to designate the leader of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), a proscribed and active terrorist organization which has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir on February 14,\u201d it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It further said, \u201cWe will continue to pursue all available avenues to ensure that terrorist leaders who are involved in heinous attacks on our citizens are brought to justice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">China, a veto-wielding permanent member of the UN Security Council had blocked the move by India and other member nations three times earlier. The last time China blocked the move was in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Commenting on China blocking to designate Azhar a global terrorist, Senior Congress leader Randeep Surjewala took to his twitter account and attacked Narendra-Modi government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cA sad day in the global fight against terrorism! China blocking Masood Azhar&#8217;s designation as global terrorist reaffirms Chinese position of being an inseparable ally of terrorism\u2019s breeding ground-Pakistan Sadly, Modiji&#8217;s Foreign Policy has been a series of Diplomatic Disasters,\u201d Surjewala tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China, for the fourth time, put a technical hold to tag Jaish-e Mohammad chief Masood Azhar as a &#8220;global terrorist&#8221; by the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday. The proposal to designate Masood Azhar under the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council was moved by the UK, France and the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[666,574,11049,10956],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310417,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310416\/revisions\/310417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}