In a significant development, the United Nations has rejected an appeal of JuD chief Hafiz Saeed, the 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind, to remove his name from its list of banned terrorists, sources said on Thursday.
Notably, the decision comes at a time when UN’s 1267 Sanctions Committee has received a new request to ban Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar after the Pulwama terror attack in which 44 CRPF men were martyred.
The UN decision to reject appeal of Saeed, also a co-founder of Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT), came after India provided detailed evidence including “highly confidential information” about his activities, sources told PTI.
Saeed was banned on December 10, 2008.