NEW DELHI – India plans to invoke a 32-year-old Commonwealth pact to seekdetails from Pakistan about the 2018 Sunjawan Army camp terror attackmastermind Mufti Waqas, a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militant who was killed bysecurity forces in March this year, according to officials.
The move is also expected to help India in making a fresh appeal to theUnited Nations to get the JeM and its chief Maulana Masood Azhar bannedunder the Security Council resolution 1267. China has blocked previousmoves by India seeking a ban on the JeM and Azhar, PTI has reported.
According to officials in the Union Home and External Affairs ministries,the relevant papers were being readied to send a request to Pakistan underthe Commonwealth pact for international cooperation in criminal matters,under which commonwealth nations are bound to provide Mutual LegalAssistance on such issues, they said.
The agreement was originally adopted by Commonwealth law ministers at theirmeeting at Harare in Zimbabwe in 1986.