NEW DELHI -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reelection bid in the ongoing nationwide polls received a shot in the arm after the United Nations Security Council last week named Pakistan-based militant leader Masood Azhar -- dubbed locally as India's number one enemy -- a global terrorist.
Azhar, who is now subject to an asset freeze, travel ban and arms embargo, heads Jaish-e-Mohammed which claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in the Indian part of disputed Kashmir that killed 40 paramilitary police and brought nuclear-armed India and Pakistan to the brink of war.
