UN rejects Hafiz Saeed's plea for removal from list of banned terrorists: Govt sources PTI | Updated: Mar 7, 2019, 16:45 IST

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UN rejects Hafiz Saeed's plea for removal from list of banned terrorists: Govt sources

PTI | Updated: Mar 7, 2019, 16:45 IST
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HIGHLIGHTS

  • Saeed's request was opposed by India as well as other countries that had originally listed him - US, UK and France
  • Pakistan did not oppose the appeal despite claims by the new Imran Khan-led government there that it was taking action against the banned terrorists and their organisations.
NEW DELHI: In a significant development, the United Nations has rejected an appeal of JuD chief 
Hafiz Saeed
, the 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind, to remove his name from its list of banned terrorists, government sources said on Thursday.

Notably, the decision comes at a time when UN's 1267 Sanctions Committee has received a new request to ban Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar after the Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed. Pakistan-based JeM has claimed responsibility for the strike.

The UN decision to reject appeal of Saeed, also a co-founder of terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), came after India provided detailed evidence including "highly confidential information" about his activities, sources told PTI, adding that the verdict of the global body was conveyed to his lawyer Haider Rasul Mirza earlier this week.
Saeed, chief of UN-designated terrorist organisation Jammat-ud-Dawa (JuD), was banned on December 10, 2008 by the United Nations Security Council after the horrific Mumbai attacks in which 166 people were killed.

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