India said at the United Nations on Tuesday that the criminal group responsible for the 1993 Mumbai bombings had not only been given state protection but also five-star hospitality, implicitly referring to Dawood Ibra, the head of the D company believed to be hiding. Xin is in Pakistan.

Ambassador T S Tirumurti, Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, told the 2022 International Counter-Terrorism Conference organized by the Global Counter-Terrorism Committee that the link between terrorism and transnational organized crime must be fully recognized and actively addressed.

“We’re seeing criminal syndicates responsible for the 1993 Mumbai bombings, not only under state protection, but with 5-star hospitality,” he said.

Tirumurti’s remarks implicitly referred to D-Company and its head, Ibrahim, who are believed to be in hiding in Pakistan.

In August 2020, Pakistan for the first time acknowledged Ibrahim’s presence on its territory after the government imposed sweeping sanctions on 88 banned terrorist groups and their leaders, which also included the name of the underworld that India did not want. Thirumurti said the UN sanctions regime, including the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee, is critical to international efforts to prevent terrorist groups from financing terrorist activities, terrorist travel and acquisition of weapons.

However, he expressed concern that the implementation of these measures remains challenging.

“All sanctions regimes established by the Security Council must ensure due process in their working procedures and decision-making. The decision-making process and listing/delisting measures should be objective, prompt, credible, evidence-based and transparent, and not based on political and religious considerations,” said the Indian ambassador.

He said that the recent Monitoring Group (MT) report on the asset freeze exemption process under resolution 2560 (2020) pointed to deficiencies in the asset freeze measures by member States, in part due to deficiencies in the Committee’s existing guidelines.

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