Blitz Bureau
A delegation from India has met with the monitoring team of the United Nations (UN) Security Council’s panel that sanctions terrorists and provided it with evidence of The Resistance Front (TRF) carrying out the massacre in Pahalgam, according to sources, reported IANS.
Pressing India’s case for imposing sanctions on the front organisation of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the Indian delegation shared documentary evidence with the monitors, the sources said on May 20.
The Council’s panel is known as the 1267 Committee after the resolution calling for action against the Islamic State or Da’esh and Al-Qaida, and groups and people associated with them. Its monitoring team of experts reports on terrorism and terrorists, and makes recommendations for additions to the terrorist list and for imposing sanctions. The sanctions include freezing their assets and imposing travel bans on those associated with the groups.
The 1267 Committee listed the LeT as an international terrorist organisation in 2005 and sanctioned three groups associated with it, including Pasba-eKashmir and Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The LeT operates under several names in attempts to evade sanctions, and the list includes 27 names under which it operates.
It has sanctioned about a dozen individuals associated with LeT, including its leader, Hafeez Mohammed Saeed. A source said that India had already reported the TRF’s terrorist activities to the UN and the delegation in the meeting with the monitoring team “reinforced that with documentary evidence.”
