India again raised its demand at the United Nations for international action against Pakistan-based terror groups Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and “their shadowy supporters” .
Denouncing the terror groups, India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Syed Akbaruddin told the Security Council on Tuesday that it was imperative to take action against the support which the terror groups receive from outside.
We need to address, as an imperative, the support that terrorist organisations like the Taliban, the Haqqani Network, Daesh, aI-Qaeda and its designated affiliates such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammed, which operate entirely outside the fabric of international law and draw from their shadowy supporters outside Afghanistan.Syed Akrabuddin
India's attempt to have international sanctions imposed on Pakistan-based JeM chief Masood Azhar, who was behind the attack on the Pathankot air force base in January, by a committee that takes action against al-Qaeda and its affiliates was forestalled by China in the past. The Pathankot attack left seven Indian soldiers dead.
'UN Split Over Imposing Sanctions’
In an implied criticism of China, he blamed the "split" in the UN bodies that decide on sanctions on terrorist organisations for the world body's inability to deal with terrorism.
China is a permanent member of the Security Council and has provided cover for Pakistan releasing on bail Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the LeT commander who masterminded the 2008 attack in Mumbai which killed more than 160 people. Lakhvi was already on the UN list of those facing sanctions as terrorists.
The international community has to make "it clear that we will neither roll over in the face of terror, nor will we of allow the roll-back of the achievements of the resolute people and government of Afghanistan in the last decade and a half," Akbaruddin said.
(With inputs from IANS)
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