India, July 30 -- A report from the United Nations (UN) Security Council has linked The Resistance Front, a front for Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), to the Pahalgam terror attack, a development being seen as a diplomatic win for India, as this is the first time the terrorist group has been named in any UN document.

When the UN Security Council issued a press statement three days after the Pahalgam attack on April 22 that killed 26 civilians, Pakistan, currently a non-permanent member of the body, had blocked any reference to the TRF or even to Pahalgam. Pakistan's foreign minister Ishaq Dar subsequently said that the country had removed any reference to TRF in the statement.

The biannual report from the Security Council's monitor...