UN lists Pak’s Abdul Rehman Makki as global terrorist under UNSC sanctions committee
Makki has been involved in raising funds, recruiting and radicalizing youth to violence and planning attacks in India, especially in Jammu and Kashmir.
Makki has been involved in raising funds, recruiting and radicalizing youth to violence and planning attacks in India, especially in Jammu and Kashmir.
In July last, the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Punjab Police had registered 23 FIRs against Saeed and his 12 accomplices on charges of 'terror financing' in different cities of Punjab province and arrested the JuD chief.
Saeed's assets had been frozen after the UNSC sanctioned him under Resolution 1267 for links with the Al Qaeda and Islamic State (IS).
The reports come as India recently declared JeM chief Masood Azhar and three others are terrorists under the Unlawful Activities Prevention (Amendment) Act.
All of the four individuals are involved in terrorist attacks in India and have been designated as global terrorists under the United Nations, an MHA statement said on Wednesday.
China lifted technical hold after it found no objection to the listing proposal following a careful study of the 'revised materials'.
Beijing’s decision to lift the technical hold came just over a week after Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale met China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in China.
China had on Monday, criticised the US for directly taking the issue of listing Masood Azhar as global terrorist to the UN Security Council.
The UNSC resolution comes after the US on Wednesday circulated a draft resolution to the UN Security Council — with British and French support — to blacklist the JeM chief.
The draft resolution by the US condemns the suicide bombing and decides that Azhar will be added to the UN Al-Qaeda and Islamic State sanctions blacklist.
