China on Tuesday defended its move to lift the technical hold on designating Pakistan-based top LeT leader Abdul Rehman Makki as a global terrorist, saying the list of terrorists is conducive to enhancing global counter-terror cooperation and to combat terrorism. Praised Islamabad for supporting. Attempt.
Makki, the 68-year-old brother-in-law of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief and Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, was declared a global terrorist by the United Nations after China lifted its hold on an Indo-US joint resolution. Blacklisted the deputy chief of Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
The UN Security Council’s 1267 ISIL (Da’esh) and Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee on Monday added Makki to its list of designated terrorists, following years of efforts to freeze his assets, a travel ban and an arms embargo. . India and his associates.
“Terrorism is the common enemy of humanity,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a media briefing here. Other Pakistan-based terrorists pending with the Committee.
He said, “The 1267 Committee (of the United Nations Security Council) is an important international counterterrorism mechanism” and listing terrorists or terrorist organizations under the auspices of the United Nations is conducive to increasing international counterterrorism cooperation in response to terrorist threats.
“The people concerned have been convicted and sentenced by Pakistan. The list also shows Pakistan’s determined fight against terrorism is a recognition,” he said, adding that Pakistan’s close ally China decided to put up a technical roadblock in the first place.
He said that China has always participated in the work of the 1267 Committee in a constructive and responsible manner in accordance with the Committee’s standards and procedures.
Makki was among a number of Pakistan-based terrorists whom China had sought over the years to prevent from being listed as global terrorists.
In May 2019, India scored a major diplomatic victory at the United Nations when the global body designated Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar as a “global terrorist” after Beijing raised its objections.
China’s move to clear its objections to the UN listing of maize came as its new foreign minister Qin Gang began his term. Qin, who had previously been China’s envoy to America, succeeded Wang Yi.
Over the years, China’s efforts to put a technical hold on the declaration of Pakistan-based terrorists have become a major stumbling block in the troubled ties between Beijing and New Delhi.
This comes at a time when India and China sought to resolve the military standoff in eastern Ladakh through high-level military and diplomatic talks. The two countries have held 17 rounds of talks for the withdrawal of troops from multiple points of friction in eastern Ladakh.
Makki’s listing as a global terrorist comes seven months after China blocked a joint proposal by India and the US on June 16, 2022 to nominate the chief of the political affairs wing of the JuD/LeT.
Decisions to list individuals and entities under the 1267 Sanctions Committee are taken unanimously.
Of the 15 Security Council members that make up the Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee, veto-power permanent member China was the only holdout during the listing process.
After China finally took hold, Makki was unanimously designated as a “global terrorist”.
China has repeatedly blocked and blocked bids by India and its allies to list Pakistan-based terrorists.
The Sanctions Committee provided a descriptive summary of the reasons for Makki’s listing which he said he and other LeT/JuD members were involved in raising funds, recruiting and radicalizing youth to violence and in India, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir. involved in planning the attacks.
The United Nations said in a press release that Makki Lashkar alias JuD is the Deputy Amir/Chief and Head of Political Affairs Wing JuD/LeT. He also served as head of Lashkar’s foreign relations department and as a member of the shura (governing body).
Born in Bahawalpur, Punjab province of Pakistan, Makki is a US-designated terrorist.
He was arrested in Pakistan on May 15, 2019 and put under house arrest in Lahore. The Sanctions Committee noted that in 2020, a Pakistani court convicted Makki of terrorism financing and sentenced him to prison.
The Sanctions Committee stated that Makki has held leadership positions within Lashkar and Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Lashkar has been involved in, or was involved in, major attacks, including the attack on the Red Fort, in which six Lashkar terrorists were killed on December 22, 2000. Had stormed the Red Fort and fired indiscriminately on the security forces deployed in the security of the fort.
Describing the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack as the most audacious attack by Lashkar in India, the committee noted that 10 Lashkar terrorists from Pakistan entered Mumbai through the Arabian Sea with pre-determined targets, out of which Ajmal Kasab was captured alive, The rest were captured alive. were killed.
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