•India on Tuesday urged the UN Security Council to declare Jamaat-ud-Dawa, a front of the Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT), as a terrorist outfit.
•Jamaat-ud-Dawa is the public name of LeT, which was banned in 2002. India and the US have said that the LeT and its leaders were involved in the Mumbai terrorist attacks.
•Referring to the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism, which India tabled in 1996, the Indian minister of state for external affairs E Ahamed said this needs to be adopted immediately to provide a framework of international law against terrorism
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