New Delhi: In a dramatic move, China has once again blocked India’s bid at the UN to ban JeM Chief Masood Azhar, the mastermind of the Pathankot terror attack.
According to highly placed sources here, just hours before the deadline earlier on Thursday, China requested the UN Committee, which is considering a ban on the chief of the Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), to keep on hold the designation.
Meanwhile, the Pakistani team probing the Pathankot terror strike completed recording statements of the witnesses in New Delhi and were also handed over some more documents which included DNA report of the four terrorists killed in the 80-hour gun battle.
The team questioned 16 witnesses, including the SP rank officer of Punjab Salwinder Singh, his jeweller friend Rajesh Verma and cook Madan Gopal. The three were kidnapped by the Pathankot attack perpetrators belonging to the JeM on the intervening night of December 31 and January one. The terrorists had allegedly dumped Verma after slitting his throat and continued their journey with Singh and Gopal before jettisoning them near Pathankot air base.
