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France, UK and US file proposal with UNSC to blacklist JeM chief Masood Azhar

Three permanent members of United Nations Security Council have submitted a proposal to the UNSC to seek blacklisting of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar.

The United States, Britain and France whom Pakistan government had counted as friends have filed this proposal and now UNSC has 10 working days to consider the proposal moved by three of its five permanent members on Wednesday.
The proposal is the fourth at the United Nations over the last 10 years to list the JeM chief as a global terrorist.
The move is likely to be opposed by China, which previously prevented the Security Council’s Daesh (ISIS) and Al Qaeda committee from sanctioning Masood Azhar in 2016 and 2017.
If adopted, the proposal will require Pakistan to freeze the funds and other financial assets belonging to Masood Azhar and his organization. India has increased efforts to put Masood Azhar on the UN list of global terro­rists since Feb 14, when the JeM claimed respon­sibility for a car bombing in Pulwama that killed at least 40 Indian soldiers.
The proposed sanctions include a travel ban and an arms embargo. The arms embargo requires UN-member states to prev­ent the direct or indirect supply, sale and transfer of arms from their territories or by their nationals outside their territories to a desig­nated individual or entity.

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