{"id":310465,"date":"2019-03-15T09:08:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T09:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310465"},"modified":"2019-03-15T09:08:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T09:08:48","slug":"france-to-freeze-assets-of-jem-chief-masood-azhar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/france-to-freeze-assets-of-jem-chief-masood-azhar\/","title":{"rendered":"France to freeze assets of JeM chief Masood Azhar"},"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;\">France on Friday decided to freeze all assets of Pakistan based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed, JeM chief Masood Azhar, the French government said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cFrance has always been and always will be by India\u2019s side in the fight against terrorism,\u201d the Foreign Office statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">France has decided to list Masood Azhar at the national level by freezing his assets in an application of the Monetary and Financial Code.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A French Foreign Office statement said that France would raise the issue with its European partners with a view to including Masood Azhar on the European Union list of persons, groups and entities involved in terrorist acts, based on this decree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The decision came after China blocked the UNSC bid to designate Masood Azhar as a global terrorist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jaish e Mohammad (JeM) had claimed responsibility of the Pulwama terror attack that killed at least 40 CRPF jawans on February 14.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France on Friday decided to freeze all assets of Pakistan based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed, JeM chief Masood Azhar, the French government said. \u201cFrance has always been and always will be by India\u2019s side in the fight against terrorism,\u201d the Foreign Office statement said. France has decided to list Masood Azhar at the national level by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,53],"tags":[1776,11049],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310465"}],"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=310465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310466,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310465\/revisions\/310466"}],"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=310465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}