Even China Backed Ban on Jamaat Ud Dawa : Diplomacy Failure

In the wake of UN Security Council resolution, which added four leaders of a militant group to a list of people and groups facing sanctions for ties with al-Qaeda or the Taliban, even Pakistan’s time tested friend China hasn’t vetoed the resolution. The resolution also recommended freezing the assets of the group and banning the certain individuals from travelling abroad.

Though, three times in the past, China has vetoed the same sort of resolutions by the security council. The Pakistan government had been resisting the US pressure in the past to ban the JuD as a terrorist†outfit on the grounds that it was a charity-cum-humanitarian relief organisation, having nothing to do with the Lashkar-e-Taiba.

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