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LeT receives adequate funding despite sanctions:India tells UN

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United Nations:India has said that terror groups like LeT continue to receive funding despite being slapped with the UN sanctions and asked the Security Council to look into the issue, as the powerful world body reaffirmed the need to cut the monetary lifeline of terrorists.

India expressed concern that financing to terror groups is supplemented by illegal resources generated through drug trafficking, piracy, kidnapping for ransom and extortion even though the terror organi-sations are placed on the Council’s sanctions list and are subject to travel bans, freezing of assets and an arms embargo. Listing of a terror group should cut off the “lifeline that sustains terrorism.

This, unfortunately, does not always happen,” India’s Acting Permanent Representative to the UN Bhagwant Bishnoi said yesterday in an open debate in the Council on terrorism and cross-border crime. He said the LeT was able to orchestrate an attack on the Indian Consulate in Heart, Afghanistan in May this year despite being a listed organization.

“Lashker-e-Taiba obvi-ously does not live on love and fresh air. They have more than adequate fund-ing. Regrettably, there seems to be little that the Council’s Sanction Commit-tees can do about such violations of the sanction regime. This is area which would benefit from consi-deration by the Council,” he said.

He cited the example of the revenue that is generated from poppy cultivation in Afghanistan that has more often than not found its way to the Taliban and other terrorist network in the war-torn country. Amid a proliferation of well-funded and well-organized transnational criminal activities, the Council adopted a resolution spotlighting its concern over the ties between cross-border crime and terrorism and called for international action to prevent terrorists from benefiting from transnational organized crime, through securing borders and prosecuting illicit networks. Recalling the Peshawar school massacre that left 148 people dead, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman said the world had been reminded yet again this week “why we must not tire in our efforts to counter terrorism, following the despicable attack on a school in Pakistan by the Taliban.”

He said terror groups like Boko Haram, Al-Qaida, the Taliban, and their “sinister peers” make it abundantly clear that the pervasive synergies betw-een terrorism and cross-border crimes foster conflicts, prevent their resolution and increase the chance of relapse. (PTI)

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