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Abdul Rehman Makki: Why Are China and Pakistan Protecting a Terrorist?

06/23/2022Massimo Introvigne |

The designation of the deputy chief of Lashkar-e-Taiba as a global terrorist has been blocked by China at the United Nations.

by Massimo Introvigne

Abdul Rehman Makki. From Twitter.
Abdul Rehman Makki. From Twitter.

Last week, China made a strange but not unprecedented move at the United Nations. It blocked for “technical reasons” the designation of Abdul Rehman Makki as a global terrorist at the UN Security Council’s Al Qaeda (Dae’sh) and ISIL Sanctions Committee, also known as the UNSC 1267 Committee.

From 2009 to 2019, China systematically vetoed the designation as global terrorist of Mohammad Masood Azhar Alvi, the leader of the Deobandi ultra-fundamentalist Islamic Pakistani organization Jaish-e-Mohammed, responsible for a series of bloody terrorist attacks. Only after ten years of vetoes, China finally took international criticism into account and pulled its opposition, which resulted in Azhar been designated on May 1, 2019 as a global terrorist.

Makki is the deputy commander of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a group that is banned in Pakistan and is designated as a terrorist organization by the United Nations 1267 Committee. The UN Committee has also declared Jama’at-ud-Da’wah, the political branch of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a terrorist front group. The leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jama’at-ud-Da’wah, Hafiz Saeed, who is Makki’s cousin and brother-in-law, was sentenced on April 8 this year by a special anti-terrorism court in Lahore, Pakistan, to a jail term of 33 years for “financing terrorism.” 

Hafiz Saeed.
Hafiz Saeed. Credits. 

On the other hand, many experts believe that Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jama’at-ud-Da’wah could not operate in Pakistan as they do without the protection and cooperation of the local intelligence services. In protecting Makki at the United Nations as a member of the Security Council with veto power, China in this sense acted as a proxy for Pakistan. 

At the same time, the veto sends a signal that within the framework of the current international situation anti-Western (and anti-Indian) feelings so much color Beijing’s moves to the point that China is prepared to contradict its rhetoric of fighting international terrorism and may in fact protect it.

Tagged With: China, Pakistan, Terrorism

Massimo Introvigne
Massimo Introvigne

Massimo Introvigne (born June 14, 1955 in Rome) is an Italian sociologist of religions. He is the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who study new religious movements. Introvigne is the author of some 70 books and more than 100 articles in the field of sociology of religion. He was the main author of the Enciclopedia delle religioni in Italia (Encyclopedia of Religions in Italy). He is a member of the editorial board for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion and of the executive board of University of California Press’ Nova Religio.  From January 5 to December 31, 2011, he has served as the “Representative on combating racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with a special focus on discrimination against Christians and members of other religions” of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). From 2012 to 2015 he served as chairperson of the Observatory of Religious Liberty, instituted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to monitor problems of religious liberty on a worldwide scale.

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