15-May-2025 01:13 PM
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United Nations/New Delhi, May 15 (Reporter) India has intensified its efforts to get the UN to designate the terror group behind the Pahalgam attack, LeT affiliated-The Resistance Front (TRF), as a UN-listed terrorist organisation.
An Indian technical team which is in New York interacted on Wednesday with the Monitoring Team of the 1267 Sanctions Committee and other partner countries in the UN.
They also met with the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED).
During their meetings with the UN Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Voronkov of the Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and Assistant Secretary-General Natalia Gherman of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), the two UN officials expressed condolences for the April 22 Pahalgam attack.
The two sides also discussed the ongoing collaboration with the CTED and UNOCT, particularly in support of implementing key Security Council counter-terrorism resolutions and the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.
This is the first time since Operation Sindoor that New Delhi has raised the issue of sanctions on the TRF with the UN.
The TRF had claimed responsibility for the April 22 terror attack in which 26 people, including a Nepali citizen, were gunned down in Pahalgam, in J&K...////...