Pakistan to chair Taliban Sanctions Committee of UNSC

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Pakistan volition seat the Taliban Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) successful 2025 and service arsenic vice-chair of the Counter-Terrorism Committee of the 15-nation U.N. body.

According to a database of chairs of the subsidiary bodies of the UNSC, Denmark volition seat the 1267 ISIL and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee of the UNSC, portion Russia and Sierra Leone volition beryllium vice-chairs for 2025.

Algeria volition seat the 1373 Counter-Terrorism Committee, portion France, Pakistan and Russia volition beryllium vice-chairs.

Pakistan volition seat the 1988 Taliban Sanctions Committee that imposes an assets freeze, a question prohibition and an arms embargo connected individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with the Taliban successful constituting a menace to the peace, stableness and information of Afghanistan. Guyana and Russia volition beryllium vice-chairs of the Taliban Sanctions Committee.

Pakistan volition besides beryllium co-chair of the Informal Working Groups connected Documentation and Other Procedural Questions and connected the General UNSC Sanctions Issues.

Pakistan is simply a non-permanent subordinate of the 15-nation Security Council for the 2025-26 term. The sanctions committees of the Council comprise each 15 members of the Security Council and marque its decisions by consensus.

India was seat of the UNSC Counter-terrorism Committee for 2022 during its 2021-22 tenure successful the Council arsenic a non-permanent member. India has consistently reminded the planetary assemblage that Pakistan is big to the world's largest fig of U.N.-proscribed terrorists and entities.

Al-Qaeda person Osama bin Laden was hiding successful Pakistan’s Abbottabad for years and was killed successful an cognition by the U.S. Navy Seals successful May 2011. China, France, Russia, the U.K. and the U.S. are the 5 imperishable members of the UNSC portion Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panama, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia and Somalia are presently successful the Council arsenic non-permanent members.

In elections held connected Tuesday (June 3, 2025), 5 caller non-permanent members of the UNSC were chosen by concealed ballot for a 2-year word starting connected January 1, 2026, until December 31, 2027. These are Bahrain, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Latvia and Colombia.

Published - June 04, 2025 03:00 p.m. IST