Sushma Swaraj, the Minister of External Affairs, on Thursday slammed Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and said “if he is so generous then he should hand over JeM chief Masood Azhar to India."
The proposal to designate Masood Azhar under the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council was moved by France, the UK and the US on February 27, days after a suicide bomber of the Pakistani-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed killed 44 CRPF soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama.
China on Wednesday kept Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar, under its protective wings, vetoing a fourth attempt to declare him a global terrorist.
Outraged by China blocking for the fourth time a move to designate JeM chief a global terrorist, responsible UNSC members warned they "may be forced to pursue other actions" at the Security Council if Beijing continued with this policy.
US & India work closely together on counterterrorism efforts & that includes at the UN. Our views on Jaish-e-Mohammed & its founder are well known: US State Dept Dy spokesperson
UN to decide on designating JeM chief Masood Azhar as a 'global terrorist' today
The JeM, headed by the 50-year-old Azhar, carried out many terror strikes in India and was involved in the attack on Parliament, the Pathankot air force base, army camps in Jammu and Uri, and the latest suicide attack on CRPF in Pulwama which claimed the lives of 40 personnel.
China in the past blocked at least three attempts to bring the JeM chief under UN sanction.
A case was filed against Congress president Rahul Gandhi in a Bihar court on Tuesday for addressing terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad chief as "Masood Azhar ji".
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The United States continued to maintain pressure on Pakistan, according to a readout of the meeting issued by the State Department.
In its strike back on Rahul Gandhi's attack, the BJP alleged that the Congress chief had respect for JeM chief in his heart for he addressed with suffix 'ji' in his speech.
The US, Britain and France had moved a proposal at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) last week to designate the chief of the JeM, which claimed responsibility for the Pulwama terror attack, as a global terrorist.
Pak media quoted the minister as saying that the action against the terrorists was not taken due to 'foreign pressure but in our interest'. This action will continue for two weeks, he reportedly said.
The sources said that India plans to keep Pakistan under bilateral and global pressure to dismantle terror infrastructure. Since Balakot strike, India is trying to build maximum pressure on Pakistan on the issue of terrorism, they said.
Highly places sources in the intelligence department say, Masood Azhar is being kept in room no 205 on the first floor of the hospital. No other room on the floor has been allotted to patients, they said.
The Security Council Sanctions Committee will consider within 10 days on the fresh proposal moved by the three permanent veto-wielding members of the 15-nation Security Council.
The US, the UK and France on Wednesday moved a fresh proposal in the UN Security Council to designate Pakistan-based chief Azhar as a global terrorist, a listing that will subject him to global travel ban, asset freeze and arms embargo.
Jaish terror group's Balakot camp, where training was imparted to recruits to carry out suicide attacks, was targeted by the IAF in an air strike last week, following the Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed.
India avenged the dastardly Pulwama terror attack, in which over 40 CRPF jawans were killed as a JeM suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a bus of their convoy in south Kashmir on February 14.
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