India on Thursday accused Pakistan of trying to politicize the procedure of the UN Security Council’s 1267 sanctions committee after members of the world body rejected Islamabad’s call to designate two Indian nationals as terrorists.
The UN Security Council on Wednesday rejected Pakistan’s efforts to have the two Indians designated as terrorists after Islamabad failed to present evidence to back up its accusations.
Pakistan’s proposal was “objected to by some members of the Security Council and subsequently the secretariat blocked this proposal … and issued a notification,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Anurag Srivastava said at a weekly press conference. .
“What has happened is [that] Pakistan’s attempt to include four Indian nationals on this 1267 sanctions list has failed, “he said, adding that the move was a” blatant attempt by Pakistan to politicize the operation of this 1267 procedure by giving it a religious color. ”
Pakistan’s move was widely perceived as a retaliation for India’s success last year in getting Jaish-e-Mohammed founder Masood Azhar listed as a global terrorist by the 1267 committee, which focuses on the designation of terrorists linked to al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Taliban. and its affiliates.
Pakistan has launched measures to designate a total of four Indians as terrorists since 2019, telling the UN Security Council that they were allegedly involved in state-sponsored terrorism. Pakistan also alleged that the men were part of an Afghanistan-based group that helped organize terrorist attacks by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and Jamaat-ul-Ahrar.
Efforts to designate two Indians, identified by Pakistan as Venumadhav Dongara and Ajoy Mistry, were rejected by the Security Council in June and July, largely due to efforts by the United States, Britain, France and Germany, people said. familiar with the events on condition of anonymity.
A recent effort to designate two more Indians, identified by Islamabad as Gobinda Patnaik and Angara Appaji, was initially blocked by a “technical hold” by the US, UK, Germany, France and Belgium as they wanted them to Pakistan will provide evidence to back up its accusations, the people said.
During closed-door consultations on Wednesday, when the suspension period ended, Pakistan’s effort to designate the two remaining Indians was rejected by the Security Council after it failed to present any evidence, the people added.
India’s permanent representative to the UN, TS Tirumurti, tweeted: “Pakistan’s brazen attempt to politicize special procedure 1267 on terrorism by giving it a religious color has been thwarted by the UN Security Council. We thank all the members of the Council who have blocked the Pakistani designs. ”
Some of the Indians that Pakistan had tried to designate as terrorists had been working in Afghanistan.
Pakistan has repeatedly tried to pick up what it claims is India’s alleged role in fomenting terrorism on its territory in various UN bodies in recent months, but without any stakeholder. He even made a false claim that his envoy to the UN had issued a statement at a UN Security Council meeting on terrorism.
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