China blocked India’s request to add the head of the Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) to a UN Security Council blacklist of groups linked to al Qaeda.
India alleged JeM and its top leader, Maulana Masood Azhar are involved in Pathankot airbase in January.
JeM has already been blacklisted by the 15-nation Security Council, but not Azhar, an hardliner and long-time foe of India.
Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup said that India had requested that Azhar be added to the list nine months ago and had received strong backing from all other members of the council.
But China, which put a hold on the move in April, had now blocked it, he said.
“We had expected China would have been more understanding of the danger posed to all by terrorism,” he said in a statement.
