Days after the nation was shaken after 26 tourists were killed in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, the Indian officials on Thursday briefed the monitoring team of the UN Security Council’s 1267 Sanctions Committee on the activities of The Resistance Front (TRF), the group behind the Pahalgam attack.
The Indian team is also set to meet representatives of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), reports informed. The team’s visit to New York is part of efforts by India to get the TRF designated as a global terrorist group.
TRF — the Pakistan-backed proxy of the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba — initially claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam terror attack of April 22 that killed 26 people, and Indian officials have said the group retracted the claim on the directions of its handlers across the border.
Reportedly, India approached the 1267 Committee with evidence linking TRF to cross-border terrorism. This marks the third time that India will approach the committee after May and November 2024.
Before this, the monitoring team was informed by the Indian side in December 2023 about the LeT and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) operating in Jammu and Kashmir through groups such as the TRF.
The 1267 Sanctions Committee managed and updated the sanctions lists. It monitors and supports the implementation of sanctions regimes under UN Security Council resolution 1267.
The main function of the monitoring team is to assist the 1267 Sanctions Committee with freezing financial assets of designated terrorist individuals and entities, preventing the entry into or transit through a member state’s territory by designated individuals, and preventing the supply of arms to designated individuals or entities.
