TIL Desk/World/New Delhi/ In a major boost to India’s efforts to get Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar on the list of global terrorists, France will be moving a proposal at the United Nations in a ‘couple of days’ to ban the head of the UN-proscribed group, French sources said on Tuesday.
Pakistan-based outfit JeM has claimed responsibility of the Pulwama terror strike that left 41 Central Reserve Police Force personnel dead. The proposal, when moved, will be fourth such bid at the UN in past 10 years. In 2009 and 2016, India moved the UN’s Sanctions Committee 1267 to ban Azhar, also the mastermind of attack on the air base in Pathankot in January, 2016.
India was joined by P3 countries — the United States, the United Kingdom and France — in the 2016 proposal. In 2017, these P3 countries moved a similar proposal at the United Nations. However, China has always blocked the proposal from being adopted by the UN. According to sources, this time around also, France, a permanent member of the UN, is expected to be joined by other countries in the proposal.
