{"id":311824,"date":"2019-05-02T06:49:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T06:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311824"},"modified":"2019-05-02T06:49:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T06:49:14","slug":"mike-pompeo-claims-victory-for-american-diplomacy-after-masood-azhars-listing-as-global-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mike-pompeo-claims-victory-for-american-diplomacy-after-masood-azhars-listing-as-global-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pompeo claims \u2018Victory for American diplomacy\u2019 after Masood Azhar&#8217;s listing as global terrorist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; 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=\"492\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/azhar-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/azhar.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar being declared a global terrorist is &#8220;a victory for American diplomacy&#8221; and the international community against terrorism, US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo said on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pompeo also congratulated the US mission in the UN which took the lead in America\u2019s diplomatic effort to designate Azhar as a global terrorist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongrats to our team @USUN for their work in negotiating JEM&#8217;s Masood Azhar&#8217;s #UN designation as a terrorist. This long-awaited action is a victory for American diplomacy and the international community against terrorism, and an important step towards peace in South Asia,\u201d Mike Pompeo tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The designation of Azhar as a global terrorist by the UN demonstrates the international commitment to rooting out terrorism in Pakistan and bringing security and stability to South Asia, the White House has said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The UN Security Council on Wednesday designated Azhar as a global terrorist after\u00a0China\u00a0which had blocked Masood Azhar\u2019s listing as global terrorist four times, lifted its technical hold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The JeM had claimed responsibility for the Pulwama terror attack that killed at least 40 CRPF soldiers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">China removed its hold on the proposal, which was moved by France, the UK and the US in the Security Council\u2019s 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee in February just days after the deadly terror attack carried out by the Pakistan-based terror outfit JeM.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar being declared a global terrorist is &#8220;a victory for American diplomacy&#8221; and the international community against terrorism, US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo said on Thursday. Pompeo also congratulated the US mission in the UN which took the lead in America\u2019s diplomatic effort to designate Azhar as a global [&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":[11049,4751],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311824"}],"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=311824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311825,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311824\/revisions\/311825"}],"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=311824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}