New Delhi: China is complicit in the acts of terror committed by Pakistan-based outfits on Indian soil. The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) has apparently prepared a dossier in which it provides details on how China blocked India’s proposal at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to ban five Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists and designate them as global terrorists.
China also blocked India’s proposal for sanctions against The Resistance Force (TRF) – an affiliate of the LeT that claimed responsibility for the April 22 terror attack at Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir.
According to The Economic Times, China used its veto power to block sanctions against Abdul Rauf Azhar/Asghar, Sajid Mir, Abdur Rehman Makki, Talha Saeed, Shahid Mehmood Rehmatullah. All five have been involved in several terror attacks in India, including the 26/11 Mumbai attacks of 2008, the 2019 Pulwama attacks, the 2016 Pathankot attack, the 2001 Parliament attack and the IC 814 hijack.
As per the report, India and the US co-sponsored the first proposal to designate Rauf a global terrorist on July 27, 2022. The proposal was put on hold by China for three months till May 10, 2023. It was finally blocked by China on May 10, 2023.
Jaish commander Rauf was one of the brothers of JeM founder Masood Azhar and was the mastermind of the 1999 IC-814 hijacking from Kathmandu to Kandahar. He has also been instrumental in setting up training camps in Pakistan and coordinating terror attacks on Indian soil. Azhar was also the main conspirator of the 2001 Parliament attack and the 2016 Pathankot airbase strike. Indian probe agencies also found that he was involved in the 2019 Pulwama attack based on evidence from a co-conspirator’s phone.
Rauf is known to have masterminded the beheading of US journalist Daniel Pearl. India has claimed that Rauf was among those killed in the strike on the JeM’s facility at Bahawalpur on May 7.
The proposal to designate Mir as a global terrorist was also blocked by China in 2023. The NIA dossier has noted that Mir is wanted for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Interestingly, he was arrested in Lahore on terror-financing charges in May 2022 and was convicted within three weeks in a speedy trial.
Mir was also designated a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) by the US on August 30, 2012. He is also on the FBI’s most wanted list.
China first blocked India’s attempt to put Makki on the UN sanctions list in 2022. However, it lifted its hold in 2023, and Makki, the head of the LeT political affairs wing, was placed on the sanctioned lists. However, citing sources, the ET report said that Pakistan told the UN that Makki was dead, creating suspicion among security agencies. He is allegedly involved in raising funds for LeT.
India and the US proposal against LeT leader Hafiz Saeed’s son, Talha Saeed, has been blocked by China since 2022. Talha (50) is reportedly actively involved in recruitment, fund collection, planning and executing attacks by LeT in India and Indian interests in Afghanistan.
Rehmatullah is the deputy chief of the proscribed organisation Falah-i-lnsaniyat Foundation (FIF), a frontal organisation of LeT. The proposal against him has also been blocked by China since 2022. Rehmatullah was involved in a conspiracy to create bases and sympathisers in India by sending funds in the garb of religious work, for anti-India activities.
India has made three submissions on TRF– the first in December 2023, followed by a detailed one in May 2024 and then another one in December 2024 for the latest report filed in February 2025. China blocked all three proposals.
