India has dispatched a delegation to the UN headquarters to officially urge The Resistance Front (TRF) to be treated as an international terrorist group and subjected to global sanctions, informed sources said.
On Wednesday, India is set to discuss with the UN Security Council's 1267 Committee's monitoring group that deals with sanctions on terrorist organizations and individuals affiliated with groups such as Al-Qaida and ISIS.
At the meeting, India will put across clear evidence accusing TRF of involvement in the April 22 attack that claimed the lives of 26 civilians—primarily tourists—in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam and other terror acts.
TRF, a purported proxy of the Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), has taken credit for the Pahalgam attack. LeT already has a place on the UN list of sanctioned terrorist groups since 2005 and also functions under several aliases such as Pasba-e-Kashmir and multiple iterations of Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The group's founder Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, as well as a dozen of its members and affiliated groups such as Jaish-e-Mohammed and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, have been sanctioned.
These sanctions normally include asset freezes and travel restrictions overseas.
The Indian delegation will also meet with the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism and the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate. Furthermore, it will interact with diplomats of different member states to garner support for the TRF's listing.
Based on the mandate of the 1267 Committee, its Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team advises confidentially the intelligence and security services of the member states regarding how to evaluate terrorist threats and formulate recommendations.
While that, in a major setback for LeT, Indian security personnel on Wednesday gunned down three of its operatives, including the outfit's 'Operations Commander' Shahid Kuttay, in an encounter in South Kashmir's Shopian. Officials confirmed the involvement of Kuttay in radicalizing and recruiting local youth in the terror group.
This development comes on the heels of India’s launch of ‘Operation Sindoor’ on May 7, a coordinated counter-terrorism operation targeting infrastructure linked to terrorist groups at nine locations across Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir.
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