India steps up efforts for UN ban on group linked to Kashmir attack

New Delhi sends delegation to New York for talks with counter-terrorism officials

U.N. headquarters in New York City, in September 2019. Sources say an Indian delegation is in New York to talk with a U.N. panel that decides on the global listing of terrorist groups. © Reuters

KIRAN SHARMA

May 15, 2025 17:34 JST

NEW DELHI -- An Indian team has held talks with United Nations counter-terrorism officials as part of efforts aimed at banning a group New Delhi says carried out the deadly April attack on tourists in Pahalgam, Indian Kashmir.

The Resistance Front (TRF), which India says is "a front" for the U.N.-proscribed Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, twice claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam attack that killed 26 people before retracting its claim.