Pakistan announced that it is distributing a new “dossier” on terrorism to UNSC members that claim Indian agencies were involved in “masterminding” a 2021 explosion near Hafiz Saeed’s home in Lahore as External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar prepares to preside over a UN Security Council meeting on terrorism on Thursday.
India will preside over the briefing on “Threats to International Peace and Security Caused by Terrorist Acts: Global Counter-terrorism Approach – Principles and the Way Forward,” which is one of several special sessions that the EAM has travelled to the United States to organise.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the foreign minister of Pakistan, will preside over meetings of China and the G-77 (a group of 134 developing nations), both of which include India. Zardari did, however, participate in the open discussion on reformed multilateralism at the UNSC meeting on Wednesday, which was presided over by Mr. Jaishankar; he was not called to the special UNSC session on terrorism.