China signals will again block Indian bid to blacklist militant leader
Maulana Masood Azhar
FILE PHOTO:  Maulana Masood Azhar   head of Pakistan's militant Jaish-e-Mohammad party  attends a pro-Taliban conference organised by the Afghan Defence Council in Islamabad August 26  2001.
India  backed by the United States  has been trying to get  Maulana Masood Azhar  on a U.N. list of groups with ties to Al Qaeda  blaming his group for a series of attacks in India  including one on its parliament in 2002 and another last year on an airbase.
It said it interrogated  Azhar  and  his  associates in the Jaish-e-Mohammad group after the January 2016 attack on the Pathankot air base but found no evidence linking  him  to it.
 Hua  said there were clear rules for listing a person or group as a terrorist  and that China has always believed the relevant U.N. committee should operate on the principles of objectivity  fairness and professionalism on this matter.
FILE PHOTO:  [TGT]attends a pro-Taliban conference organised by the Afghan Defence Council in Islamabad August 26  2001.
India  backed by the United States  has been trying to get  [TGT]blaming [TGT] group for a series of attacks in India  including one on its parliament in 2002 and another last year on an airbase.
It said it interrogated  Azhar  and  [TGT]  associates in the Jaish-e-Mohammad group after the January 2016 attack on the Pathankot air base but found no evidence linking  [TGT]  to it.
 Hua  said there were clear rules for listing a person or group as a terrorist  and that China has always believed the relevant U.N. committee should operate on the principles of objectivity  fairness and professionalism on this matter.