Strongly slamming the United Nations Security Council on the issue of declaring Masood Azhar an international terrorist, India’s permanent representative Syed Akbaruddin to the United Nations took a dig at China’s technical hold on India’s bid to get JeM chief banned by the United Nations.

Syed Akbaruddin said that the Security Council has been stuck In its own time warp and politics and further criticized the Council for its inability to sanction he leaders of terrorist organization.

Pitching for the equitable representation and the increase the permanent membership in the Security Council, Akbaruddin said, “While our collective conscience is ravaged everyday by terrorists in some region or another, the Security Council gives itself 9 months to consider whether to sanction leaders of organizations it has itself designated as terrorist entities.”

Earlier, by opposing India’s move to sanction Masood Azhar a terrorist, China had put the technical hold on India’s decision. The six-month validity had lapsed in September but China had extended it for another 3 months.

On the UNSC reform, Akbaruddin said that it is time to break the impasse to urgently reform the body that is unresponsive to the current global situations. “On issues pivotal to international security such as Syria, there is inaction, and on other situations like dealing with the peacekeeping crisis in South Sudan we see fragmented action which is not implemented even months after being agreed upon,” he said.

He further added, “The Security Council, stuck in its own time warp and politics, can only be described as working randomly on the basis of a mix of ad-hocism, scrambling and political paralysis. Need one say more about the urgency of the need for reform of this relic which has long been unresponsive to the needs of our time.”