India team briefs UN sanctions panel on TRF's terror activities
New Delhi, May 15 -- Indian officials briefed the monitoring team of the UN Security Council's 1267 Sanctions Committee on the activities of The Resistance Front (TRF), the group behind the Pahalgam terror attack, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
An Indian technical team is visiting New York to interact with the monitoring team of the 1267 Sanctions Committee and other partner countries in the United Nations, the people said on condition of anonymity.
The team will also meet representatives of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), the people said. The team's visit is part of efforts by India to get the TRF designated as a global terrorist group.
The TRF, a front for Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), initially claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam terror attack of April 22 that killed 26 people, and Indian officials have said the group retracted the claim on the directions of its handlers across the border. The 1267 Sanctions Committee is tasked with managing and updating sanctions lists, and monitoring and supporting implementation of sanctions regimes under UN Security Council resolution 1267....
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