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India on Friday threw shade at Pakistan’s leadership in key United Nations Security Council (UNSC) committees, calling it an “obvious conflict of interest."

Speaking at a debate on the working methods of the Council, India’s Permanent Representative, Ambassador P. Harish, said that countries with vested interests should not be allowed to chair committees dealing with sanctions or counter-terrorism.

“Obvious and outright conflicts of interest can have no place in the Council," Harish said, in a veiled reference to Pakistan.

The Indian envoy did not explicitly name the country or the committees, but the remarks were widely understood to target Pakistan’s role as head of the Taliban sanctions committee and co-chair of the counter-terrorism committee.

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