The United States on Tuesday stated it will “utilize all available resources” to ensure Jaish-e-Mohammad founder Masood Azhar, was held accountable countering Chinese charges that it has circumvented UN security council’s sanctions committee to blacklist the Pakistan-based terrorist leader. The spokesperson also confirmed “that we circulated a draft UNSC resolution with U.K. and French support”. Also Read | US says it will use all available resources to blacklist Masood AzharThey were understood to have agreed among themselves to give discussions with China some more days, but not weeks and month. China had blocked or put a hold on four proposals to list Azhar a ‘global terrorist’ so far. The draft resolution set off “informal discussions”, which could lead to that open debate, but not if the designation was cleared in the interim.

Source: Hindustan Times April 02, 2019 18:00 UTC