ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has officially responded to the news of US and UNdenial to put deadly Afghanistan based terrorist group Chief Umer KhalidKhorsani among UN designated terrorists list.
FO has expressed disappointment over the failure of United Nations SecurityCouncil’s sanctions committee in listing of Umer Khalid Khurasani, leaderof banned outfit Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA).
“We are deeply disappointed…Wali has the blood of hundreds of innocentPakistanis on his hands,” Foreign Office Spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisalsaid during the weekly briefing on Thursday. “If the organisation, JuA, hasbeen listed by the sanctions committee it’s leader should also have beenlisted.”
Dr Faisal added that this action demonstrated the double standardsprevailing in the international fight against terrorism and also showedcomplete disregard of the sacrifices rendered by Pakistan in this fight.
The sanctions committee did not approve Pakistan’s request to list UmerKhalid Khurasani alias Abdul Wali, since it could not reach a consensus dueto disagreement by a member, the spokesperson said.
“[But] the committee has not yet formally conveyed this development to us.”
JuA was listed by the sanctions committee in 2017. The banned organisationis based in Nangarhar province of Afghanistan and has been involved in aseries of terrorist attacks in Pakistan. Since 2014, when JuA firstsurfaced, it proved itself to be a lethal terrorist group, perpetratingsome of the most brutal attacks in Pakistan.
From August 2014 till date, the group has been involved in 116 terroristattacks on Pakistan.