New York: The Crime Syndicate responsible for the 1993 Mumbai bomb explosion is to enjoy 5-star hospitality in Pakistan and provide state protection “, Indian envoys at the United Nations said, in a covert reference for Dawood Ibrahim.
India’s permanent representatives to the UN Ambassador Ts Tirumu On Tuesday told the 2022 International Terrorism counter conference organized by the Global Counter Terrorism Council that the relationship between terror and transnational organized crime must be handled with enthusiasm.
In August 2020, Pakistan had the first time recognizing the presence of Dawood on his land after the government imposed sanctions sweeping on 88 terror groups and their leaders.
Tirumuti, who is also the seat of the Unsc counter-terrorism committee for 2022, said that the UN sanctions regime, including the 1267 al-Qaeda sanctions committee, is very important for international efforts in preventing terrorist financing, travel and access to terrorists, DA n Access.
to arm terrorist organizations.
He, however, voiced worries that the implementation of these steps remained challenging.
“It is very important that all the sanctions regimes set by the Board ensure the process due to their work procedures and decision making.
The decision-making process and list / delisting steps must be objective, fast, credible, evidence based and transparent, and not for political and religious considerations , “said the Indian Ambassador.
He said that recent reports about the monitoring team about asset liberation procedures based on the resolution of 2560 (2020) pointing to lacunae from the steps of freezing assets by member countries, partly due to deficiency in existing committee guidelines.
India is also refined as a “dangerous” tendency of several UN members, driven by political, religious, and other motivation, to label terrorism into categories such as violent extremism motivating racial and right-wing extremism, saying this will bring the world back to the era Pre-9/19 to give them labels as “your terrorists” and “my terrorist”.
Tirumuti said that in the domain counter-terrorism global, terrorist attack 9/11 in 2001 has been proven to be “a turning point in our approach to terrorism.” The September 11 attacks highlighted that the threat of terrorism was a grave and universal and could only be defeated by the collective efforts of all UN member countries, he said.
Indian envoys said that the Islamic State (ISIS) has changed the mode of operandi with its core focus now on regaining land in Syria and Iraq, and its regional affiliates strengthen their expansion, especially in Africa and in Asia.
“Likewise, Al-Qaida remains a big threat and recent developments in Afghanistan only functioning to energize them,” he said.