‘UNSC must use sanctions against terror funding’

India has asked the UN Security Council to use sanctions regime as a weapon against terror funding in Afghanistan and support the strengthening of the war-torn country’s sovereignty threatened by terrorist safe havens across the borders.

India also asked the international community to ensure that the forces of terrorism do not find sanctuaries and safe havens anywhere and at any level.

“We must not differentiate between good and bad terrorists, or play one group against the other. The Taliban, Haqqani Network, AI-Qaeda, Daesh, LeT, Jaish-e- Mohammad and others of their ilk are all terror organisations, many of them proscribed by the UN,” Syed Akbaruddin, India’s permanent representative to the UN, said.

“The international community cannot remain silent. It is the international community’s first and foremost duty to ensure that the forces of terrorism and extremism do not find sanctuaries and safe havens anywhere and at any level,” he said in an apparent dig at Pakistan.

Participating in an open debate of the UNSC on Afghanistan, Akbaruddin said that these terrorist groups should be treated like terrorist organisations with no justifications offered for their activities.

Noting that the situation in Afghanistan has remained particularly disturbing with security worsening and visible signs of withering away of the gains by the international community and Afghan people, the Indian envoy said that the attacks on hospitals, schools, funerals, or international development agencies, diplomatic missions are a matter of serious concern.

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