India ramps up efforts for UN listing of LeT front The Resistance Front

An Indian delegation met top officials of the UN Office of CounterTerrorism UNOCT and CounterTerrorism Committee Executive Directorate here even as New Delhi stepped up efforts to designate The Resistance Front a LeT proxy as an UNlisted terror outfit reported news agency PTIThe Resistance Front TRF a front for Pakistanbased terrorist group LashkareTaiba LeT had claimed responsibility for the attack that killed 26 people in Jammu and Kashmirs PahalgamAn Indian technical team which is in New York interacted today Wednesday with the Monitoring Team of the 1267 Sanctions Committee and other partner countries in the UN They also met with the United Nations Office of CounterTerrorism UNOCT and CounterTerrorism Committee Executive Directorate CTED sources told PTIA readout from UNOCT and CTED of the meeting with the Indian team Wednesday provided to PTI said that United Nations UnderSecretaryGeneral Vladimir Voronkov of the Office of CounterTerrorism and Assistant SecretaryGeneral Natalia Gherman of the CounterTerrorism Committee Executive Directorate met with a delegation of the Government of the Republic of IndiaThe development comes in the wake of the horrific April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam and the retaliatory Operation Sindoor launched by India targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistanoccupied KashmirIndias push at the UN also comes after the UN Security Council issued a Press Statement in which the members had condemned the Pahalgam attack in the strongest terms but did not mention TRF as the group responsible for the attackVoronkov and Gherman expressed condolences for the April 22 attackThe discussions with the Indian delegation focused on ongoing collaboration with CTED and UNOCT within their respective mandates particularly in support of implementing key Security Council counterterrorism resolutions and the UN Global CounterTerrorism Strategy the readout said reported PTIIt added that key areas of cooperation include UNOCTled technical capacitybuilding initiatives supported by India such as cybersecurity countering terrorist travel supporting victims of terrorism and countering the financing of terrorismThe participants also discussed efforts to counter the use of new and emerging technologies for terrorist purposes in line with the 2022 Delhi Declaration adopted by the CounterTerrorism Committee under the Chairmanship of IndiaThis includes the development of nonbinding guiding principles prepared with CTEDs support on threats posed by unmanned aircraft systems and the use of emerging financial technologies for terrorist activities reported PTIPakistan is currently a nonpermanent member of the Security Council and will preside over the powerful 15nation body in JulySeveral Pakistanbased terror entities and individuals are listed under the 1267 Al Qaida Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council and are subject to an assets freeze arms embargo and travel banIn the past vetowielding permanent UNSC member China a fairweather friend of Pakistan has often put holds and blocks on proposals submitted by India and its partners like the US to blacklist Pakistanbased terrorists at the UNThe 1267 ISIL Daesh AlQaida Committee oversees the sanctions imposed by the Security CouncilThe Committee comprises all 15 members of the Security Council and makes its decision by consensus The Committee is mandated among other things to oversee the implementation of the sanctions measures and designate individuals and entities who meet the listing criteria set out in the relevant resolutionsFollowing the Pahalgam attack the UN Security Council had on April 25 issued a Press Statement on the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir in which the members had condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attackThe members of the Security Council underlined the need to hold perpetrators organisers financiers and sponsors of this reprehensible act of terrorism accountable and bring them to justice the press statement had said reported PTIHowever the press statement did not mention TRF as the group responsible for the attack after Pakistan managed to get the name removedForeign Secretary Vikram Misri during a briefing on Operation Sindoor last week had said that The Resistance Front TRF had claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam attack This group is a front for the UNproscribed Pakistani terrorist group LashkareTaibaIt is notable that India had given inputs about the TRF in the halfyearly report to the Monitoring Team of the UNs 1267 Sanctions Committee in May and November 2024 bringing out its role as a cover for Pakistanbased terrorist groups Earlier too in December 2023 India had informed the monitoring team about LeT and JaisheMohammad operating through small terror groups such as the TRF Misri had said reported PTIMisri had underlined that Pakistans pressure to remove references to TRF in the April 25 UN Security Council Press Statement is iquestnotableiquest in this regardUNOCT was established in June 2017 and its main functions include enhancing coordination and coherence across the Global CounterTerrorism Coordination Compact entities strengthening the delivery of United Nations counterterrorism capacitybuilding assistance to Member States and improving visibility advocacy and resource mobilisation for United Nations counterterrorism effortsThe Security Council established the CounterTerrorism Committee Executive Directorate CTED to assist the work of the CounterTerrorism Committee CTC which was established by Security Council resolution 1372 2001 adopted unanimously in September 2001 in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United StatesWith inputs from PTIatOptionskeyd0ddb8ef8f1a62a8cdd22fac27fc5ea7formatiframeheight90width728params