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Pakistan, a non-permanent member of the UNSC, has been protecting TRF at the UNSC with backing from China for a long time.
The UNSC held a closed-door consultations on the situation between India and Pakistan. (AP File Image)
Pahalgam Attack: India is set to submit fresh evidence today to the United Nations Security Council’s 1267 Sanctions Committee, demanding that the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba offshoot, The Resistance Front (TRF), be designated as a terrorist organisation.
Sources told CNN-News18 that the team will present proof exposing Pakistan’s terror nexus, specifically highlighting TRF’s role in the Aril 22 Pahalgam attack that killed 26 people.
The dossier aims to strengthen India’s push to get TRF — widely seen as a Pakistan-backed proxy of the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba — designated as a global terrorist organisation. The team is also likely to seek sanctions and travel bans on its members.
This marks the third time India will approach the 1267 Committee with evidence linking TRF to cross-border terrorism. Previous attempts to sanction the group were blocked despite concrete shreds of evidence, Indian officials have said.
Pakistan Guarding TRF?
Pakistan, a non-permanent member of the UNSC, has been protecting TRF at the council with backing from China for a long time.
It reportedly succeeded in preventing the group’s name from being included in a UNSC statement condemning the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack.
TRF claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam attack twice.
UNSC 1267 Panel
The 1267 Sanctions Committee, established by a UNSC resolution in 1999, focuses on combating terrorism linked to ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and related groups.
It imposes sanctions and travel bans on individuals and entities tied to these groups, enforcing measures under UNSC resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011), and 2253 (2015).
Top sources say India has strong intelligence on Pakistan’s long-standing links to terror groups like LeT, and that its probe into Pahalgam attack aims to expose this terror network.
TRF emerged as a shadow group of LeT following the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir in 2019. The Investigation Agency’s probe has confirmed TRF’s role in planning attacks, killings, recruiting terrorists, and smuggling weapons in Valley.
India-Pakistan Conflict
Notably, the Indian government’s decision to expose Pakistan’s terror nexus at a global forum came days after a ceasefire agreement was reached between New Delhi and Islamabad.
India launched precision strikes targeting nine terror hideouts in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir under ‘Operation Sindoor’, in retaliation to the Pahalgam attack.
The situation quickly escalated after Pakistan launched drone and missile attacks on Indian states, including J&K, Punjab, Haryana, and Rajasthan.
India’s defence systems intercepted all the attacks effectively and retaliated with full force.
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