ISLAMABAD – Less than 24-hours left when US, UK, and France will make moveto list terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar aUN-designated terrorist in the United Nation Security Council (UNSC).
After the Pulwama attack, France, UK and US had moved the proposal to listMasood Azhar as UN-designated terrorist under the 1267 Al Qaeda SanctionsCommittee on February 27.
Following the Pulwama attack, whose responsibility was taken by terroroutfit JeM, India once again approached the international community to playits bid in order to ban Masood Azhar and list him as UN-designatedterrorist.
However, the only hurdle which has resisted the UNSC to list Masood Azharhas been China’s veto power using which it has always blocked the move, inorder to support its all-weather ally Pakistan.
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Therefore, it is going to be a crucial day to see whether China takes aparallel step along with US, UK, and France to list Masood Azhar as aUN-designated terrorist.
