China isn’t agreeing to UN’s attempt to ban Masood Azhar, one of India’s most wanted terrorists!

The recent attack on the Pathankot air base has brought the terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) back in limelight, which is led by Maulana Masood Azhar and has also been accused of the 2001 Parliament attacks.

Owing to its terrorist activities, United Nations had in the past attempted to ban the JeM, but couldn’t do so because of China's stubbornness on the matter at the request of Pakistan.

JeM has been announced a terrorist organisation in several countries like Australia, Canada, India, the UAE, the UK and the US.

In 2009, India had requested the UN Security Council to ban Azhar but China, which happens to be one of the five permanent members of the group with Veto Powers, didn’t allow the ban. This was perhaps at the request of Pakistan, from where the organisation operates.
This happened despite the then UPA government providing all the detailed information, about Azhar's involvement in terror activities in India, to China.

However, China argued that the information wasn’t sufficient enough to establish Azhar's involvement in terrorism, as per ET.

In 2010, India's request to name Azhar, and Abdur Rehman Makki and Azam Cheema of Lashkar on the 1267 sanctions list of the UN was also put on "technical hold" by China.

This is not the only case when China didn’t support India in its fight against terrorism. Last year, China had blocked India’s effort to question Pakistan at the UNSC (as per resolution 1267). The questioning was to be done over the release of Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the LeT commander and the brain behind 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. The same “insufficient information" alibi was used in this matter as well.

Also, Beijing has thrice blocked India's bids to get Jamaat-ud-Dawa added to the UNSC terror list, which was finally done in December 2008. Not only this, China also stalled India's effort to get Hizbul Mujahideen's Syed Salahuddin added to the 1267 sanctions list early last year.

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