No double standards in dealing with terrorists: India on China blocking its bid to blacklist JeM dy at UN

India

oi-Prakash KL

New
Delhi,
Aug
12:
India
on
Friday
expressed
its
displeasure
against
China
over
blocking
its
bid
at
UN
to
blacklist
JeM
deputy
chief
Abdul
Rauf
Azhar
as
“global
terrorist”
and
said
there
should
be
no
double
standards
in
dealing
with
terrorists.

Arindam
Bagchi,
spokesperson
of
the
Ministry
of
External
Affairs
(MEA),
noted
with
“regret”
that
a
technical
hold
had
been
placed
on
the
listing
proposal
for
Abdul
Rauf
Asghar.
“It
is
unfortunate
that
the
international
community
has
been
unable
to
speak
in
one
common
voice
on
our
collective
battle
against
terrorism.
There
should
be
no
double
standards
in
dealing
with
terrorists.
The
practice
of
placing
holds
and
blocks
without
giving
any
justification
must
end,”
he
said.

To
a
media
query,
the
MEA
spokesperson
said
it
is
most
regrettable
that
“genuine
and
evidence-based
listing
proposals”
pertaining
to
some
of
the
most
notorious
terrorists
in
the
world
are
being
placed
on
hold.
“Double
standards
and
continuing
politicisation
have
rendered
credibility
of
sanctions
committee
at
an
all-time
low,”
he
added.

China
blocks
India-US
proposal
to
list
Pak-based
terrorist
Abdul
Rehman
Makki
under
UNSC
sanctions

China
has
blocked
the
proposal
by
the
US
and
India
at
the
UN
Security
Council
to
designate
Pakistan-based
JeM’s
deputy
chief
Abdul
Rauf
Azhar
as
a
global
terrorist
and
subject
him
to
assets
freeze,
travel
ban
and
arms
embargo,
PTI
sources
said
and
added
that
all
other
14
member
states
of
the
top
UN
body
supported
the
move

Brother
of
JeM
chief
Masood
Azhar,
Abdul
Rauf,
born
in
1974
in
Pakistan,
has
been
involved
in
planning
and
executing
numerous
terror
strikes
in
India
including
the
hijacking
of
Indian
Airlines
aircraft
IC814
in
1999,
the
attack
on
the
Parliament
in
2001
and
the
targeting
of
the
IAF
base
in
Pathankot
in
2016.

This
is
the
second
time
in
less
than
two
months
that
China
has
put
a
hold
on
a
listing
by
the
US
and
India
to
blacklist
a
Pakistan-based
terrorist
under
the
sanctions
committee
of
the
UN
Security
Council.

In
June
this
year,
China
had
put
a
hold,
at
the
last
moment,
on
a
joint
proposal
by
India
and
the
US
to
list
Pakistan-based
deputy
leader
of
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba
Abdul
Rehman
Makki
under
the
1267
Al-Qaida
Sanctions
Committee
of
the
UN
Security
Council.
Makki
is
a
US-designated
terrorist
and
brother-in-law
of
Lashkar-e-Taiba
head
and
26/11
mastermind
Hafiz
Saeed.