India, May 19 -- An Indian delegation presented evidence against The Resistance Front (TRF) to UN counter-terrorism officials in New York, for designating TRF as a terror group under the UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1267 sanctions list. TRF, which claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam terror attack before retracting, is a proxy of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) - a Pakistan-based UN-designated terror group under the 1267 sanctions list.

UNSCR 1267, adopted in 1999 by the UN Security Council (UNSC), began the sanctions regime against al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and blacklisted terrorists and terror groups in Afghanistan, including Osama bin Laden and his associates. In 2011, a separate Taliban Sanctions Committee was constituted by UNSC ...