United Nations: India has criticised Pakistan heading the Security Council’s committee on sanctions against the Taliban and co-chairing the counter-terrorism panel, citing conflicts of interest.

Council members must be prevented from chairing committees when they have “vested interests”, India’s Permanent Representative P Harish said on Friday at the Council debate on its working methods.

“Obvious and outright conflicts of interest can have no place in the Council”, he said

He did not name Pakistan, which is an elected member of the Council serving a two-year term, or the Taliban sanctions committee or the counter-terrorism panel, but it was obvious who and which committees he was referring to.

The panel known as the 1988 committee after the serial number of the resolution creating it,

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