The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has refused to remove Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) co-founder and mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai attack, Hafiz Saeed, from its list of terrorists, reports The New Indian Express on March 8. Saeed’s request to be delisted was vehemently opposed by India, as well as by the US, UK and France, which is now the Security Council chair. “As expected, despite all its talk about countering terror, Pakistan had not raised any objection to Saeed’s appeal to lift the ban,” said one official in New Delhi. The decision comes days ahead of the UNSC hearing a fresh request to list Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) founder Masood Azhar as a terrorist, moved by France after the February 14 Pulwama suicide bomb attack on a CRPF convoy in which 40 troopers were killed.