S Jaishankar Takes Veiled Dig At Pakistan And China Over Indirect Support To Terrorism At UNSC| News

Addressing the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said the events in Afghanistan “have naturally enhanced global concerns about their implications for both regional and international security”. “The heightened activities of the proscribed Haqqani network justifies this growing anxiety. Whether it is in Afghanistan or against India, groups like Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed continue to operate with both impunity and encouragement,” Jaishankar said at a high-level UNSC briefing on ‘Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts’. India holds the current presidency of the UNSC. In a swipe at China, Jaishankar told the Council that countries should not place blocks and holds without any reason on requests to designate terrorists, warning that any double standards and distinctions between terrorists would be made only at “our own peril”. Jaishankar alluded to his remarks to the Council made in January, when he had proposed an eight-point action plan aimed at collectively eliminating the scourge of terrorism. “Summon the political will: don’t justify terrorism, don’t glorify terrorists, no double standards. Terrorists are terrorists, distinctions are made only at our own peril. Don’t place blocks and holds on listing requests without any reason,” he said. This was in reference to China repeatedly placing technical holds on bids by India and other nations to designate Masood Azhar, head of the Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed, as a global terrorist. #SJaishankar #UNSC #China #Terrorism Subscribe to Swarajya on YouTube. Get a Swarajya subscription: https://subscriptions.swarajyamag.com... Website: https://swarajyamag.com/ Twitter:   / swarajyamag   Facebook:   / swarajyamag