Days after the United Nations Security Council introduced Abdul Rehman Makki to its listing of specific terrorists, the Pakistan-primarily based totally deputy chief of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) launched a video on Thursday from the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore denying any hyperlinks with al Qaeda or the Islamic State.
On Monday, the UN Security Council’s 1267 ISIL (Da’esh) and Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee specific Makki as a international terrorist, the arena body’s 2nd such designation stemming from the 2008 terrorist assaults in Mumbai that killed 166 people.
The UN circulate subjected him to an property freeze, journey ban and palms embargo, after years of efforts through India and its allies.
Makki, the brother-in-regulation of the Mumbai terror assault mastermind and Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) Hafiz Saeed, however, did now no longer point out the 26/eleven assault that killed 166 people, information company PTI reported.
“I agree with that the grounds for my list are primarily based totally on heresy and disinformation through the Indian authorities. I in no way met Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Al-Zawahiri or Abdullah Azam as alleged through a few propaganda reports,” PTI quoted Makki as saying.
Makki changed into arrested in Pakistan’s Punjab province in 2019 and convicted in November and December 2020 in separate instances on costs of terror financing. He is serving more than one sentences in terror finance instances along side Saeed and a few different LeT and JuD senior leaders.
Makki stated he considers the perspectives and moves of Al-Qaeda and ISIS definitely contrary of what he believes in.
“I denounce all types of terrorism and violence perpetrated through such groups. I agree with withinside the fundamental function of the Pakistani authorities concerning Kashmir…,” he stated.
Regretting the us decision, Makki stated, “No due method changed into accompanied or facts changed into supplied concerning those list.”
He denied allegations in opposition to him for being a college member of Islamic University Islamabad withinside the Eighties in which he changed into accused of assembly Al Qaeda leaders or Afghan commanders.
India had submitted 5 names for designation beneathneath 1267 in 2022: Makki (LeT), Abdul Rauf Asghar (Jaish-e-Mohammed, JeM), Sajid Mir (LeT), Shahid Mahmood (LeT), and Talha Saeed (LeT).
Each of those 5 names changed into first of all located on technical keep through one member kingdom at the same time as all different 14 individuals of the Council agreed to their list.
On Tuesday, China subsequently lifted its ‘technical keep’ at the designation of Makki as a international terrorist beneathneath the 1267 UN Sanctions Committee after the u . s . changed into left remoted withinside the Security Council.