New Delhi: India welcomed the UN Security Council's decision on Tuesday to name Pakistani Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Abdul Rehman Makki a global terrorist. India said that terrorism remains a major threat in the region and also that UNSC sanctions are an effective approach to preventing such threats.
India will keep pushing for the international community to take serious, verifiable, and irreversible action against terrorism, according to External Affairs Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi. "We welcome the decision of the UN Security Council's ISIL and Al Qaida Sanctions Committee to list Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Abdul Rehman Makki, who is also the brother-in-law of LeT leader Hafiz Saeed," Bagchi said in response to questions.