ISLAMABAD -- China has backed Belt and Road partner Pakistan and earned the global community's ire by blocking an Indian request to blacklist the leader of a Pakistan-based militant group that claimed responsibility for last month's suicide bombing in Kashmir.
At a committee meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday, China vetoed a resolution to designate Masood Azhar, leader of Jaish-e-Mohammad, a global terrorist. The resolution was intended to subject the leader of the anti-India Islamist group to a global travel ban, an asset freeze and an arms embargo.
