Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)
China’s indifference toward global security concerns to forward its own agenda of world domination has become crystal clear over the past few years.
Apart from luring poorer nations into a debt trap, the Communist state has repeatedly trumped measures to uphold world peace and ensure perpetrators of crime and violence are brought to justice.
China’s hidden agenda was proved at the United Nations Security Council when it put a hold on India and the USA’s proposal to blacklist terrorist Hafiz Talah Saeed under the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee.
Saaed is the son of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)’s chief Hafiz Saeed who is believed to have masterminded the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks that shook India.
India’s Charges Against Saaed
Earlier this year,in April,the Indian government officially declared Saaed, the head of LeT’s clerical wing, a terrorist.
In the notification,the Home Ministry of India stated that he had been actively involved in fund collection,recruitment,planning,and executing attacks on behalf of the LeT in India and Indian interests in Afghanistan.
Moreover,it was stated that he had been actively visiting LeT centers across Pakistan to promote the idea of jihad against world leaders and secular countries like the United States,Israel, and India.
Just two days before the blatant snub,China delayed the sanctioning of another joint proposal by India and the US at the UNSC to deem another LeT leader,Shahid Mahmood, a global terrorist.
The US Department of the Treasury had designated Mahmood and Muhammad Sarwar, another key LeT leader,as part of its action to disrupt the LeT’s support network and fundraising efforts.
US Department Of The Treasury’s Statements
As per the US Department of the Treasury’s website, Mahmood was a senior LeT member based out of Karachi and had been affiliated with the groups at least since 2007.
From 2015-2016,he served as Falah-i-Insaniat (FIF)’s vice chairman and was affiliated with the so-called humanitarian and fundraising arm of the LeT since at least 2013.
Even though Mahmood claimed that the LeT’s primary aim was to attack India and America,in 2011,China kept blocking efforts to bring these terrorists under the watchful eyes of the law because it was like hitting two enemies with one stone,in its tall ambition of becoming the world’s only superpower.
In fact,this is not the first time that China has displayed its true colors by shielding mass murderers from facing justice and being held responsible for their unwarranted crimes in the name of religion.
Time and again,it has silently shown its support for nearly all of the forty terror groups housed in Pakistan,particularly the LeT and JeM family-run terror empires.
China’s Repeated Snubs
In August 2022,it put on hold listing Abdul Rauf Alvi, the de facto leader of the Pakistan-based terror organization Jaish-e Mohammed (JeM), among the 1267 Taliban and Al-Queda Sanctions Committee list.
While several countries, including India and the UK, blacklisted the younger brother of global terrorist Masood Azhar Alvi,the Chinese government indirectly proved its support for terror against India and the world.
It was only nearly a decade later that Alvi’s name was placed on the list on May 1, 2019.
Similarly,in June 2022,China failed to blacklist the head of the Pakistan-based terror cell, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT),Abdul Rahman Makki, on “technical grounds”.
Makki is the brother-in-law of LeT’s chief, Hafiz Saeed, and the apparent head of the foreign affairs department of the transnational terrorist organization.
West Asian countries fund militants like Makki Makki in the name of Islam,who then use it to weaponize radicalized Muslims to target selcular countries like India.
Troubling China-Pakistan Alliance
China believes that Pakistan is its secret weapon to counter India, an emerging superpower and, therefore,a threat to its view of overthrowing the US, the UK, and its allies as world leaders.
As a reward for Pakistan to keep India busy in territorial battles, China also objected to another UNSC proposal to blacklist LeT’s intelligence chief Azam Cheema,who trained the 26/11 criminals under LeT commander Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi.
China’s infuriating stance on global anti-terrorism efforts also extended to the 2015 blocking of the listing of Mohamed Yusuf Shah or Syed Salahuddin, who heads yet another Pakistan-based terrorist group,Hizbul Mujahideen.
This terror cell is focused on provoking riots and unrest in Jammu and Kashmir and is used by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to spread terror amongst locals and ultimately annex Kashmir into Pakistan.
While the US has blacklisted all these terrorists on charges of terrorism in the last decade,China appears to be strengthening its support for terror against India by misusing its veto power in the UNSC.
The quid pro quo in this blasphemous partnership is that Pakistan has not yet uttered a word against the human rights violations against Uighur Muslims by the Communist Party of China in Xinjiang province.
