Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar was on Wednesday designated a global terrorist by the United Nations after China withdrew its long-standing opposition to the move. Azhar was listed by the UN’s 1267 Sanctions Committee for his association with al-Qaeda and his role in financing, planning and facilitating terrorist acts by the JeM. Travel banEntities and organsiations designated as terrorists are banned from travelling to or transiting through the member countries. The sanctions committee oversees the implementation of the sanctions measures and reports annually to the Security Council on the implementation of these measures. They are authorized to consider and decide upon notifications and requests for exemptions from the sanctions measures and for removing an entity from the proscribed list.

Source: Hindustan Times May 02, 2019 03:45 UTC