'Deeply disappointed': India on China blocking UN ban on Azhar

November 02, 2017 21:48

Reacting strongly over China's move to block India, the United States and other nations' bid to list Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed chief and Pathankot terror attack mastermind Masood Azhar as a global terrorist by the United Nations, India today said that it is deeply disappointed.

"India is deeply disappointed," the ministry of external affairs said in a statement.

"India strongly believes that double standards will only undermine international community's resolve to combat terrorism," the MEA said.

The ministry further said, "India hopes there will be realisation that accommodating with terrorism for narrow objectives is short sighted and counter productive."

China had in August extended by three months its technical hold on the the US, France and UK-backed proposal to list Azhar as a global terrorist by the UN after having blocked the move in February this year at the United Nations.

The JeM, founded by Azhar, has already been in the UN's list of banned terror outfits.

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