United Nations, Nov 19:Presenting its case of having fought terrorism on its soil for the last 3 decades, India stated that UN is eroding its own authority by refusing to take action against terror sponsoring states and leaders. 

Already fighting for a seat as a permanent member of the security council, India stated that UN needs to come up with a "cohesive response to global terrorism, else they run the risk of becoming marginalised from the most fundamental security priorities of member states whose fabric is being torn asunder by terrorists.The international community is impatient for action,” India's Permanent Representative Syed Akbaruddin said on Thursday during a General Assembly debate on Afghanistan.

 He reiterated a demand India made in June, for designating Taliban chief Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada as a terrorist and making him face the penalties of UN sanctions.

 "Earlier this week, President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan himself asked a delegation of the UNSC (Security Council) Sanctions Committee to include this person, and such others, in the list of terrorists," Akbarudin added while making a case for stronger action against terror states. This comes at a time when NRIs across America had recently submitted a petition to the White House demanding that Pakistan be declared a terror state for its support of the proxy war being waged against India, funded and abetted by Pakistani intelligence and army. 

 The working of the Sanctions committee has been a sore point for India. China has used its veto to provide cover for Jaish-e-Mohammad's Pakistan-based head, Masood Azhar, from sanctions despite India labelling him as a most wanted terrorist in India post his role in the January attack on the Pathankot air base. 

 

 Afghanistan's Permanent Representative Mahmoud Saikal also raised the problem of the Taliban and other terrorist organisations based in Pakistan.

 Without directly naming it, he accused Pakistan of waging a "thinly disguised declared war" against his country by using the Taliban and other terrorist organisations, including the Haqquani network and the Islamic State.

 He further warned Islamabad by stating that, “those who seek solace from the intention of keeping Afghanistan bleeding must remember that such actions would bleed them, too, and warrant international isolation."