Like Nobel For Masood Azhar, Hafiz Saeed: Priyanka Chaturvedi blasts UN Over Pakistans Anti-Terror Position

Shiv Sena (UBT) MP and chief of the all-party delegation Priyanka Chaturvedi on Saturday criticized the United Nations Safety Council for appointing Pakistan because the vice chair of the counter-terrorism panel. She identified that Pakistan was given the function regardless of 52 designated terrorists residing inside its borders. 

Addressing the Indian group at a group occasion in Berlin, Chaturvedi described the UN Safety Council’s choice to nominate Pakistan as vice-chairman of its counter-terrorism panel as akin to nominating Masood Azhar and Hafiz Saeed for the Nobel Peace Prize. She added that such a call needs to be criticised. Notably, each Masood Azhar and Hafiz Saeed are designated as worldwide terrorists by the United Nations Safety Council (UNSC).

“Pakistan has turn into part of the UN Safety Council. You all are conscious that 52 terrorists reside in Pakistan. However they’ve been given the vice chairmanship of counter-terrorism. It is rather like nominating Masood Azhar and Hafiz Saeed for the Nobel Peace Prize. It must be known as out. The entire world is struggling as a result of this,” ANI quoted Chaturvedi as saying. 

Chaturvedi additionally reaffirmed India’s agency stance towards terrorism, saying that the nation will battle towards terrorists with none hesitation. 

“We are sometimes informed that India is a tolerant nation; sure, India is a tolerant nation. We’re a land of Mahatma and Buddha, however we’re additionally the land of Krishna. Every time there may be injustice and now we have to battle towards terrorists to serve justice, we are going to do this with none hesitation,” ANI quoted Chaturvedi as saying. 

Pakistan, serving as a non-permanent member of the Safety Council for the 2025-26 time period, will chair the Council’s Taliban Sanctions Committee in 2025 and can maintain the place of vice-chair on the Counter-Terrorism Committee of the 15-nation UN physique.

Priyanka Chaturvedi is a part of an all-party delegation to Europe to convey India’s resolute and united stand towards terrorism following the April 22 terror assault in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, the place Pakistan-sponsored terrorists killed 26 harmless civilians.

The delegation arrived in Germany after concluding their go to to Belgium. The delegation, led by Ravi Shankar Prasad, contains BJP MPs Daggubati Purandeswari and Samik Bhattacharya, Congress MP Amar Singh and Gulam Ali Khatana, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi, AIADMK MP M Thambidurai, former Union Minister MJ Akbar, and retired diplomat Pankaj Saran.