'LeT, JeM orchestrated attacks on Indian soil'
New Delhi, May 26 -- India raised the links of proscribed Pakistan-based terror groups Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and their proxies to terror attacks ranging from the 2008 Mumbai attacks to Pahalgam attacks at a UN meeting in Vienna and called for the early adoption of the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT) which criminalises all forms of international terrorism.
Delivering India's statement at the session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), Niraj Kumar Bansod, joint secretary of the Union home ministry, raised the role of Pakistan-based terror groups and said: "UN-proscribed terrorist groups such as LeT, JeM and their proxies have orchestrated attacks on Indian soil, leading to tragic loss of lives." "Incidents such as the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the attacks in Uri and Pathankot in 2016, the 2019 Pulwama suicide bombing, and most recently, the heinous terror attack in Pahalgam where 26 tourists were shot dead, remain deeply etched in our national consciousness."
New Delhi first proposed CCIT at the UN General Assembly in 1996, when it was dealing with Pakistan-backed terror in Jammu and Kashmir....
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