Pakistan on Sunday endorsed the block that China has imposed on India’s campaign at the United Nations Security Council to blacklist a Pakistan-based terror group chief.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) of Pakistan termed “politically motivated” India’s campaign to impose a ban on Masood Azhar of Jaish-e-Mohammed and said the Indian proposal at the 1267 counter-terror committee of the U.N. Security Council had “no merit”.
“The 1267 Sanctions Committee related to IS/al-Qaeda has rejected a politically motivated proposal by India. Replete with frivolous information and baseless allegations, the Indian proposal had no merit and was primarily aimed at advancing its narrow national agenda. The dismissal of this proposal is also a rejection of Indian attempts to politicise and undermine the work of this important committee of the Security Council,” said a statement issued by the MoFA, Islamabad.
The strongly worded statement is significant as it came on the eve of the first anniversary of the Pathankot attack of January 2, 2016. It was in the aftermath of the attack that India intensified its global campaign targeting Azhar.
No response
The Ministry of External Affairs did not respond to the statement even though it had described the Chinese block which prevented the 1267 committee from taking up the Indian proposal as “surprising”.
“We will continue to push forward with resolute determination through the use of all options available with us to bring perpetrators of terrorist violence to justice,” the MEA spokesperson had stated about China’s obstruction.
