As days pass by, credibility of the United Nations Security Council is becoming more and more precarious. There are clear and visible indications that some of the decisions taken by the Security Council are neither objective nor justifiable. These are politically motivated. When China scuttled India’s application to the Security Council to bring Azhar and his parity on the list of banned persons or organizations of the Security Council, China is reported to have used the veto secretly. Obviously, when India came to know about it, she has raised an issue in the United Nations on the subject of transparency and openness alleging that the SC lacks both. No member of the General Body was told who voted against Indian application and why. The matter has been kept a secret. Indian representative to the United Nations has derided the culture of the SC of maintaining secrecy and allowing a hidden vote to be cast and the General Assembly kept deliberately uninformed.
It has to be reminded that this was the second time India had, on the basis of highly dependable evidence, demanded listing Azhar, a Pakistani national and the kingpin in Mumbai attack of 2008 and Pathankot Airbase attack of 2015, and his party Jaish-e-Mohammad as a terrorist organisation. Both the times, China opposed India’s application making far-fetched pretexts. India has produced plethora of evidence to the UN, the US and to the media showing direct involvement of Azhar and his terrorist outfit in these acts of subterfuge and violence in India. We know that China has done it on the behest of Pakistan as both are united in damaging the interests of India. Obstructing listing of Azhar, the known terrorist, indirectly means that China is promoting terrorism for political purposes. That is why we have often said that all the world powers are not seriously interested in challenging terrorism. China has close relations with the Islamic countries for her commercial interests but China is also facing religion based terror in her eastern province of Xinjiang. The Uyghur are reported to receive training in the terrorist camps in Pakistan. We also note that while China has been indirectly supporting terror in Pakistan, other members of the Security Council are looking helplessly in the Security Council. This shows that no big power is really interested in taking anti-terror campaign seriously. It is only Prime Minister Modi who has been repeatedly asking the world community to come together and fight the menace of global terror. India should ask the Security Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations to clarify its reaction to China indirectly supporting known terrorists and their movements especially those based in Pakistan and the Khyber Pukhtunkhwa region.
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