Setback to Pakistan at UNSC 1267 as it fails to shield Jaish-e-Mohammed and enlist support for BLA move

New Delhi: In a setback to Pakistan, the latest UN Security Council 1267 sanctions monitoring committee report has recorded that Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed, a UN-designated terror outfit, was "linked" to the Delhi Red Fort terror attack and added that the group has plans to set up a dedicated "women-only wing, Jamaat-ul-Muminat".

Pakistan strongly protested JeM's inclusion in the report, to the extent that it recorded its dissent by stating that the outfit was "defunct". It was the only member state to object to JeM's mention while others went along with India's position, ET has learnt.

"One member state claimed that Jaish-e-Mohammed had claimed responsibility for a series of attacks. It was also reported to be linked to an attack on the Red Fort on November 9 that killed 15 people. On October 8, Jaish-e-Mohammed leader Maulana Masood Azhar Alvi formally announced the establishment of a women-only wing Jamaat ul-Muminat, which was aimed at supporting terrorist attacks," the report stated.


The report also recorded that three terrorists behind the Pahalgam attack had been killed in J&K. The last monitoring team report was the first to mention The Resistance Front as the group responsible for the Pahalgam attack. The group, despite Pakistan's protests, was proscribed as a proxy of UN-designated terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba.

While JeM is already a proscribed entity under UN 1267 sanctions committee as having links to Al Qaeda, Pakistan has assiduously ensured that the report does not mention it frequently. Islamabad's purpose has always been to project that these outfits no longer operate from its soil.

Further, Pakistan failed to enlist support to link Baloch Liberation Army with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and by extension to Al Qaeda or ISIL. The report - while noting that BLA had carried out an ambush in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, killing 32 Pak military personnel - stated: "Some member states assessed that there was neither an association nor growing ties between the Baloch Liberation Army and Al Qaeda or ISIL (Dae'sh)."

Pakistan has been trying to get BLA designated in the UN 1267 committee as an Al Qaeda-linked entity, constructing a narrative of collaboration with TTP, a designated outfit. In fact, a Pak-China proposal to designate BLA under UN 1267 panel has been put on hold by the US, UK and France - a move China did for years on Indian proposals against JeM and LeT.