Pakistan, a non-permanent member of the UNSC, has been protecting The Resistance Front at the council with support from China
India has upped the ante against Pakistan’s activities of promoting and backing terror.
A technical team carrying all the relevant material is in New York to press the UN Security Council sanctions committee. The first set of meetings with other UN committees on counter-terrorism took place on Wednesday.
The Indian team met with United Nations Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Voronkov of the Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and Assistant Secretary-General Natalia Gherman of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED).
Voronkov and Gherman expressed condolences for the recent terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir on April 22, 2025.
The discussions with the Indian delegation focused on ongoing collaboration with CTED and UNOCT within their respective mandates, particularly in support of implementing key Security Council counter-terrorism resolutions and the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.
Key areas of cooperation include UNOCT-led technical capacity-building initiatives supported by India—such as cybersecurity, countering terrorist travel, supporting victims of terrorism, and countering the financing of terrorism.
Also discussed at the meeting were efforts to counter the use of new and emerging technologies for terrorist purposes, in line with the 2022 Delhi Declaration adopted by the Counter-Terrorism Committee under the Chairmanship of India.
This includes the development of non-binding guiding principles—prepared with CTED’s support—on threats posed by unmanned aircraft systems and the use of emerging financial technologies for terrorist activities.
Sources said the team is to interact today with the United Nations Security Council’s monitoring team of the 1267 Sanctions Committee and other partner countries in the UN.
The United Nations Security Council’s 1267 Sanctions Committee meeting this week is to seek the designation of The Resistance Front (TRF) as a terrorist organisation. The move follows the Pahalgam terrorist attack on April 22, in which 26 civilians were killed, which led to a conflict between India and Pakistan.
The team will present new evidence pointing to Pakistan’s involvement in supporting terrorism. The evidence will highlight TRF’s role in the attack.
Pakistan, a non-permanent member of the UNSC, has been protecting TRF at the council with support from China. The 1267 Sanctions Committee was established under a UNSC resolution in 1999.
The committee decides on sanctions and travel bans for individuals and entities associated with these terror organisations and ensures the enforcement of these measures under UNSC resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011), and 2253 (2015).
The Tribune
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