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A10 WORLD NEWS
Friday 3 May 2019
UN adds leader of outlawed Pakistan group to sanctions list

By MUNIR AHMED sanctions committee said
ASHOK SHARMA the 50-year-old Azhar was
Associated Press associated with al-Qaida
ISLAMABAD (AP) — In a by supporting its activities,
major diplomatic win for including by supplying arms
India, the United Nations and recruiting members,
added the leader of an and for financially support-
outlawed Pakistani mili- ing Jaish-e-Mohammed.
tant group to its sanctions Azhar was released from
blacklist Wednesday after prison in India in 1999 in ex-
the group claimed respon- change for 155 passengers
sibility for a February suicide on an Indian Airlines flight
attack in disputed Kashmir hijacked to Kandahar, Af-
that killed 40 Indian soldiers. ghanistan.
Sanctions against Masood As a group, Jaish-e-Mo-
Azhar were confirmed by hammed had been put
Pakistani Foreign Ministry on the sanctions blacklist in
spokesman Mohammad 2001 for its ties to al-Qaida,
Faisal at a news confer- Osama bin Laden and the
ence in Islamabad. Azhar's Taliban. The U.N. listing not-
addition to the Security ed that 2008 recruitment
Council's Islamic State and posters for Jaish-e-Moham-
al-Qaida blacklist includes med "contained a call from
a travel ban and freeze on Azhar for volunteers to join
his assets as well as an arms In this Jan. 27, 2000 file photo, Masood Azhar, center, wearing glasses and white turban, leader of the fight in Afghanistan
embargo. Jaish-e-Mohammad arrives in Islamabad, Pakistan. against Western forces."
The development came Associated Press Indian Prime Minister Nar-
less than three months endra Modi said on Twitter
after Azhar's Jaish-e-Mo- clashes brought the two Delhi quickly welcomed previous occasions. But the that "today is a day that
hammed group claimed nuclear rivals to the brink of the Security Council de- council went ahead after would make every Indian
responsibility for the Feb. war. cision. Sanctions against China no longer objected. proud!
14 attack in Kashmir, which India had intensified its Azhar had been delayed Azhar was blacklisted for his I thank the global commu-
is split between the two lobbying to have Azhar because Security Coun- leadership of the al-Qaida- nity and all those who be-
countries and claimed blacklisted after the kill- cil member China had linked Jaish-e-Mohammed. lieve in humanitarian val-
by both in its entirety. The ing of its soldiers and New blocked them on three The official listing by the U.N. ues for their support."q

Turkish man dies, upping toll from Christchurch attack to 51

By NICK PERRY and Turkey confirmed. to the injuries sustained in have banned the video, combat prejudice against
WELLINGTON, New Zealand New Zealand Prime Minister the shooting at the Al Noor and anybody caught shar- Muslims in the wake of the
(AP) — The death toll from Jacinda Ardern said Friday mosque." ing it in New Zealand can attacks.
the Christchurch mosque the sad news would be felt Relations between Turkey face up to 14 years in pris- On Thursday, Turkey's For-
attacks has risen to 51 af- across both countries. and New Zealand have on. eign Minister Mevlut Cavu-
ter a Turkish man who had "This man has been in inten- been strained since the New Zealand's Foreign Min- soglu said on Twitter: "Unfor-
been hospitalized since a sive care since the attack," March 15 attack after Turk- ister Winston Peters trav- tunately, we have lost our
gunman opened fire on Ardern said in a statement. ish President Recep Tayyip eled to Turkey a week after citizen Zekeriya Tuyan who
worshippers seven weeks "We have all been hop- Erdogan showed clips of a the attacks to try to smooth was seriously wounded in
ago died overnight, au- ing for the best, however livestream video taken by relations. He spoke at an the treacherous terrorist at-
thorities in New Zealand he has now succumbed the gunman at election emergency session of the tack in Christchurch, New
Zealand."
The state-run Anadolu
Agency said the father
of two was wounded in
the back and the leg and
died after undergoing sur-
gery. New Zealand police
said Tuyan was 46. He was
one of three Turkish citizens
wounded in the attack.
Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-
old Australian white su-
premacist, has been
In this Saturday, March 23, 2019 file photo, Worshippers prepare charged with 50 counts of
to enter the Al Noor mosque following last week's mass shooting murder and 39 counts of
in Christchurch, New Zealand. attempted murder in the
Associated Press attacks, although those
charges could be amend-
campaigns to denounce Organization of Islamic Co- ed to reflect the increased
hatred against Islam. operation's executive com- death toll. He is next due in
New Zealand authorities mittee called by Turkey to court on June 14.q