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NEW DELHI: China has blocked a proposal by India and US at the UN to designate Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) deputy chief Abdul Rauf Azhar as a ‘global terrorist’. “We need more time to assess the relevant application,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said in Beijing. This is the second time in less than two months that China has put a hold on a listing by the US and India to blacklist a Pakistan-based terrorist under the sanctions committee of the UN Security Council. Sitting in Pakistan, Azhar planned and launched several audacious attacks on Indian targets that brought the...
