[DAWN] Undeterred by scuttling of its previous attempt to get 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...
chief Masood Azhar banned by the United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
, India will again move the world body with the demand, according to its external affairs ministry.
"We will be moving the 1267 Sanctions Committee to also include the name of Masood Azhar on the sanctions list. It is a great anomaly that the organization Jaish-e-Mohammad is listed, but not its leader," ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said.
He also noted that India had already submitted to the UN’s Sanction Committee a fresh list of what he called 11 gunnies from Pakistain-based groups affiliated to Al Qaeda, Taliban and other outfits responsible for terrorism in the country.
On February 18, a list of 11 individuals and one organization "linked to terrorism in India", was submitted to the 1267/1989/2253 ISIL (the myrmidon Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group) and Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee.
The UN banned JeM in 2001 but India’s efforts to get restrictions imposed on Azhar after the Mumbai attacks did not bear fruit because China didn’t allow them to be imposed.