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India 'disappointed' as China again blocks bid to ban Jaish chief Masood Azhar
[DAWN] India said on Thursday it was "disappointed" by China again delaying a bid to declared Jaish-e-Mohammad...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf bannedthe group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... (JeM) leader Masood Azhar a UN-designated global terrorist. China had on Wednesday put on hold a request by Britannia, La Belle France and the United States to add Azhar to a UN sanctions blacklist which would subject him to a global travel ban, an assets freeze and an arms embargo. China ‐ which has blocked three similar moves ‐ said it needed more time to examine the sanctions request targeting Azhar, and asked for a technical hold which could last up to nine months. Posted by: Fred 2019-03-15 |
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