The UN Security Council has put the leader of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad group, which claimed responsibility for a February deadly attack in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, on its terrorist list, Syed Akbaruddin, the Indian ambassador to the United Nations, said on Wednesday
NEW DELHI (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 01st May, 2019) The UN Security Council has put the leader of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad group, which claimed responsibility for a February deadly attack in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, on its terrorist list, Syed Akbaruddin, the Indian ambassador to the United Nations, said on Wednesday.The decision comes as China, an ally of Pakistan, lifts its objections to Azhar's designation after New Delhi announced that it had provided Beijing with the requested evidence of the group's terrorist activities.
"Masood Azhar designated as a terrorist in @UN Sanctions list[.] Grateful to all for their support. #Zerotolerance4Terrorism," Akbaruddin wrote on Twitter.
According to the NDTV channel, the designation will entail a freeze on Azhar's finances and assets, as well as a travel ban.
On February 14, a car carrying over 100 Pounds of explosives was detonated on the Jammu-Srinagar highway next to a security convoy in the Pulwama district of the northern Indian Jammu and Kashmir state, killing 45 Indian paramilitary officers. New Delhi named Azhar, residing in Pakistan, as the person responsible for ordering the attack, accusing Islamabad for having a "direct hand" in the incident and harboring terrorists.
Following the attack, the United States, the United Kingdom and France drafted a resolution urging the UN Security Council to designate Azhar and his group as terrorists.
