{"id":28563,"date":"2017-11-02T23:17:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T18:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28563"},"modified":"2017-11-02T23:17:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T18:17:22","slug":"china-blocks-designating-masood-azhar-as-global-terrorist-india-reacts-sharply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28563","title":{"rendered":"China blocks designating Masood Azhar as global terrorist, India reacts sharply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, Nov. 2 (TNS):\u00a0<\/strong>India on Thursday reacted sharply to\u00a0China again blocking banned Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar&#8217;s\u00a0designation as a global terrorist by the UN, saying\u00a0&#8220;accommodating with terrorism&#8221; for narrow objectives was both\u00a0short-sighted and counterproductive.<\/p>\n<p>China for the fourth time blocked the bid to list\u00a0Azhar as a global terrorist\u00a0by the UN, saying &#8220;there is no consensus&#8221; within the members\u00a0of the sanctions committee.<\/p>\n<p>Indian External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar, in\u00a0a strongly-worded statement, said, &#8220;We are deeply disappointed\u00a0that once again, a single country has blocked international\u00a0consensus on the designation of an acknowledged terrorist and\u00a0leader of UN-designated terrorist organisation, Masood Azhar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the statement did not name China.<\/p>\n<p>India strongly believes that &#8220;double standards&#8221; and\u00a0&#8220;selective approaches&#8221; will only undermine the international\u00a0community&#8217;s resolve to combat terrorism, Kumar said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can only hope that there will be a realisation that\u00a0accommodating with terrorism for narrow objectives is both\u00a0short-sighted and counterproductive,&#8221; he asserted.<\/p>\n<p>A veto-wielding permanent member of the Security Council,\u00a0China has repeatedly blocked India\u2019s bid to put a ban on the JeM chief under the\u00a0Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the Council.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Nov. 2 (TNS):\u00a0India on Thursday reacted sharply to\u00a0China again blocking banned Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar&#8217;s\u00a0designation as a global terrorist by the UN, saying\u00a0&#8220;accommodating with terrorism&#8221; for narrow objectives was both\u00a0short-sighted and counterproductive. China for the fourth time blocked the bid to list\u00a0Azhar as a global terrorist\u00a0by the UN, saying &#8220;there is no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[172,733],"class_list":["post-28563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-new-dehli","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28565,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28563\/revisions\/28565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}