UNITED NATIONS: In a blatant misuse of its UN Security Council’s membership, India has blocked a proposal to proscribe an Indian national by a panel, according to the informed sources.
The procedures of 15-member body’s panel known as 1267 Sanctions Committee require consent of all council members to accept a listing request.
The proposal for listing of Gobinda Patnaik Duggivalasa was tabled in the committee because of his role in financing and supporting terrorist attacks against Pakistan, including the July 13, 2018 suicide attack in Mastung, Balochistan. Over 160 individuals lost their lives and more than 200 were injured in that attack.
Duggivalasa was also involved in suicide attack on a bus carrying Chinese nationals in Dalbandin, Balochistan, on August 11, 2018, the sources said.
He is part of India’s state-sponsored terrorist network responsible for unifying various Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) factions in the past in Afghanistan, they said.
Recent reports of the UN Monitoring Team focusing on the global threat posed by Al-Qaeda, Daesh and related groups have highlighted increasing cross-border terrorist threat posed by proscribed TTP to Pakistan from the Afghan soil as result of the re-unification of the group in Afghanistan.
Pakistan, according to the sources, has shared concrete evidence on the involvement of Indian intelligence agencies in sponsoring UN-listed terrorist organizations such as TTP and Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) in cross-border terrorist attacks against Pakistani military and civilian targets.
India’s blocking of the listing proposal, as well as asserting political pressure on other members of the committee, shows India’s “farcical” stance on terrorism as well as its misuse of the UN’s counter-terrorism mechanisms, said the sources.
Facing growing criticism in the international media about its atrocities in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir as well as mainstreaming of Islamophobia in its political discourse, Indian diplomats have been making the UN a venue for peddling New Delhi’s disinformation campaign against Pakistan to divert attention from its domestic situation.
