India to present fresh proof on Pakistan link to Pahalgam at UN

India is urging the United Nations to designate The Resistance Front (TRF),

a Lashkar-e-Toiba offshoot believed to be behind the dastardly terror attack in Pahalgam, as a terrorist group under the UN Security Council 1267 sanctions regime.

A fresh dossier will be submitted with new evidence pointing to Pakistan’s involvement in supporting terrorism. The evidence will highlight TRF’s role in the Pahalgam attack.

A technical team carrying all relevant material is in New York to press the UN Security Council sanctions committee. The UNSC 1267 Sanctions Committee will meet this week over the matter. Pakistan, a non-permanent member of the UNSC, has been protecting TRF at the council with support from China. The 1267 Sanctions Committee, was established under a UNSC resolution in 1999. The committee decides on sanctions and travel bans for individuals and entities associated with terror organisations and ensures the enforcement of measures under UNSC resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011), and 2253 (2015).

Meanwhile, the Indian technical team had the first set of meetings with other UN committee on counter terrorism. The team met with Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Voronkov of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and Assistant Secretary-General Natalia Gherman of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED).

Voronkov and Gherman condoled the deaths in the Pahalgam terror attack. The discussions with the Indian delegation focused on collaboration with CTED and UNOCT within their respective mandates, particularly in support of implementing key Security Council counter-terrorism resolutions and the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.

Key areas of cooperation include UNOCT-led technical capacity-building initiatives supported by India -- such as cybersecurity, countering terrorist travel, supporting victims of terrorism, and countering the financing of terrorism.

Also discussed at the meeting were efforts to counter the use of new and emerging technologies for terrorist purposes, in line with the 2022 Delhi Declaration adopted by the Counter-Terrorism Committee under the Chairmanship of India.

This includes the development of non-binding guiding principles — prepared with CTED’s support — on threats posed by unmanned aircraft systems and the use of emerging financial technologies for terrorist activities.