New Delhi (TIP)- India is urging the United Nations to designate The Resistance Front (TRF), a Lashkar-e-Toiba offshoot believed to be behind the dastardly terror attack in Pahalgam, as a terrorist group under the UN Security Council 1267 sanctions regime. A fresh dossier will be submitted with new evidence pointing to Pakistan’s involvement in supporting terrorism. The evidence will highlight TRF’s role in the Pahalgam attack.
A technical team carrying all relevant material is in New York to press the UN Security Council sanctions committee. The UNSC 1267 Sanctions Committee will meet this week over the matter. Pakistan, a non-permanent member of the UNSC, has been protecting TRF at the council with support from China. The 1267 Sanctions Committee, was established under a UNSC resolution in 1999. The committee decides on sanctions and travel bans for individuals and entities associated with terror organisations and ensures the enforcement of measures under UNSC resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011), and 2253 (2015).
Meanwhile, the Indian technical team had the first set of meetings with other UN committee on counter terrorism. The team met with Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Voronkov of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and Assistant Secretary-General Natalia Gherman of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED).
Voronkov and Gherman condoled the deaths in the Pahalgam terror attack. The discussions with the Indian delegation focused on collaboration with CTED and UNOCT within their respective mandates, particularly in support of implementing key Security Council counter-terrorism resolutions and the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.
India, Pak agree to ease tensions
India and Pakistan have agreed to continue with “confidence-building measures” that include reducing the alertness level of the two militaries which in turn is expected to further “cool down” existing tensions.
The Indian Army said on Thursday, May 15, as per the understanding arrived between the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) on both sides on May 10, “it has been decided to continue the confidence-building measures so as to reduce the alertness level”.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar told his parliament that the country’s military had agreed to extend a ceasefire with India until May 18.