China puts hold on proposal India, US at UN to blackl Pakan-based LeT terror Hafiz Talah Saeed

China Wednesday put a hold on a proposal India and the US at the United Nations to blackl Pakan-based militant Hafiz Talah Saeed, the son of Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed, in the second such move within two days.
Hafiz Talha Saeed, 46, is a key leader of the dreaded terror group LeT and the son of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed.
In April this year, he had been declared a terror the Indian government.
It is learnt that China placed the hold on the proposal to add Hafiz Talah Saeed under the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council.
It is the second time in less than two days that Beijing put a hold on the bid submitted India and the US to designate a Pakan-based terror as a global terror.
India’s charge against Saeed
In a notification, India’s Home Minry had said that Hafiz Talha Saeed has been actively involved in recruitment, fund collection, and planning and executing attacks the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in India and Indian interests in Afghanan.
He has also been actively visiting various LeT centres across Pakan, and during his sermons propagating for jihad against India, Israel, the United States of America and Indian interests in other western countries, it had stated.
Hafiz Talha Saeed is a senior leader of the LeT and is the head of the cleric wing of the terror organisation.
China on Tuesday put a hold on a proposal India and the US at the United Nations to l Pakan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Shahid Mahmood as a global terror.
Beijing placed a hold on the proposal India and the US to designate Mahmood, 42, as a global terror under the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council.
US’ findings
The US Department of Treasury had designated Mahmood as well as another LeT leader Muhammad Sarwar in December 2016 as part of the action “to disrupt LeT’s fundraising and support networks.” According to information on the US Department of the Treasury’s website, Mahmood “has been a longstanding senior LeT member based in Karachi, Pakan, and has been affiliated with the group since at least 2007.
As early as June 2015 through at least June 2016, Mahmood served as the vice chairman of Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), a humanitarian and fundraising arm of LeT.” In 2014, Mahmood was the leader of FIF in Karachi. In August 2013, Mahmood was identified as a LeT publications wing member, the website said.
“Mahmood was previously part of LeT’s overseas operations team led Sajjid Mir….Additionally, in August 2013, Mahmood was instructed to forge covert links with Islamic organizations in Bangladesh and Burma, and as of late 2011, Mahmood claimed that LeT’s primary concern should be attacking India and America,” the US Department of Treasury said.
China in UN
This is the fifth time in four months that China has put a hold on ling proposals to designate Pakan-based terrors under the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee regime.
In June this year, China put a hold, at the last moment, on a joint proposal India and the US to blackl Pakan-based terror Abdul Rehman Makki under the 1267 Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council. Makki is a US-designated terror and brother-in-law of Hafiz Saeed.
New Delhi and Washington had put in a joint proposal to designate Makki as a global terror under the 1267 ISIL and Al Qaida Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council but Beijing placed a hold on this proposal at the last minute.
Then in August, China again put a hold on a proposal the US and India to blackl Abdul Rauf Azhar, the senior leader of Pakan-based terror organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM).
Azhar, born in 1974 in Pakan, had been sanctioned the US in December 2010. C The US Department of Treasury had in December 2010 designated “Abdul Rauf Azhar for acting for or on behalf of JEM.” The US said as a senior leader of JeM, Abdul Rauf Azhar “has urged Pakanis to engage in militant activities. He has served as JEM’s acting leader in 2007, as one of JEM’s most senior commanders in India, and as JEM’s intelligence coordinator.
In 2008 Azhar was assigned to organise suicide attacks in India. He was also involved with JEM’s political wing and has served as a JEM official involved with training camps.” In September, Beijing put a hold on a proposal moved at the United Nations the US and co-supported India to designate Lashkar-e-Tayyiba terror Sajid Mir, wanted for his involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, as a global terror.
Mir is one of India’s most wanted terrors and has a bounty of USD5 million placed on his head the US for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
In June this year, he was jailed for over 15 years in a terror-financing case an anti-terrorism court in Pakan, which is struggling to exit the grey l of the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
Pakani authorities had in the past claimed Mir had died, but Western countries remained unconvinced and demanded proof of his death. This issue became a major sticking point in FATF’s assessment of Pakan’s progress on the action plan late last year.
Mir is a senior member of the Pakan-based LeT and is wanted for his involvement in the November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai.
“Mir was LeT’s operations manager for the attacks, playing a leading role in their planning, preparation, and execution,” the US State Department has said.
India’s stance
External Affairs Miner S Jaishankar said in his address to the high-level UN General Assembly session in September had said that “the United Nations responds to terrorism sanctioning its perpetrators”.
S Jaishankar has said that terrorism should not be used as a political tool.
“Those who politicise the UNSC 1267 Sanctions regime, sometimes even to the extent of defending proclaimed terrors, do so at their own peril. Believe me, they advance neither their own interests nor indeed their reputation,” he had said.
Amid repeated holds on proposals to designate terrors under the UN sanctions regime, Jaishankar had told reporters here last month that terrorism should not be used as a political tool and the idea that something is blocked without assigning a reason challenges common sense.
“We do believe that in any process, if any party is taking a decision, they need to be transparent about it. So the idea that something is blocked without assigning a reason, it sort of challenges common sense,” Jaishankar had said in New York in response to a question PTI on the issue of repeated holds and blocks on proposals to l terrors under the UN sanctions regime.
Earlier also, China, an all-weather friend of Islamabad, has placed holds and blocks on bids India and its allies to l Pakan-based terrors.
In May 2019, India won a huge diplomatic win at the UN when the global body designated Pakan-based JeM chief Masood Azhar as a “global terror”, a decade after New Delhi had first approached the world body on the issue.
A veto-wielding permanent member of the UN Security Council, China was the sole hold-out in the 15-nation body on the bid to blackl Azhar, blocking attempts placing a “technical hold”.