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In May,

• China helped Pakistan to ensure ‘The Resistance Front’ (TRF) is not named in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)
• press statement issued after the dastardly Pahalgam attack. But India reversed the tables at the global stage on Thursday
• with some slick diplomacy as the US State Department designated TRF as a global terrorist organisation.

1. India could now use this move of the TRF’s designation by the US state department to press the UNSC to bring sanctions against the TRF,
2. whom India has termed as a proxy of the Lashkar-e-Taiba. It is believed that Pakistan had tried to lobby to prevent TRF’s designation by the US but India’s diplomacy moves trumped Pakistan.
3. A top source in the Indian establishment said Pakistan had made TRF withdraw its original claim of being behind the Pahalgam attack but the same did not cut ice with the US.

The move could mean freeze on funding of TRF as well as strengthen India’s case at the FATF meeting in August to put Pakistan back in the ‘grey list’.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar thanked the US for designating TRF as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) and made it clear that this organisation had claimed responsibility for the April 22 Pahalgam attack.

“Zero tolerance for terrorism," Jaishankar said, underlining the latest step as a “strong affirmation" of India-US counter-terrorism cooperation.

India’s case is that Lashkar-e-Taiba created a front called TRF and the same has been flagged by India before the UNSC various times.

twice claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam attack but later withdrew it sensing it could backfire for Pakistan at the global level.

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