The Resistance Front (TRF) twice claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam terrorist attack before retracting, said the Monitoring Team (MT) of the UN Security Council (UNSC) Sanctions Committee in its latest report mentioning for the first time the name of the Pakistan-based terror group that was listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the US

India has been providing inputs on The Resistance Front to the UNSC monitoring team since 2023. Islamabad has lobbied hard to block its mention in UN documents.

All Monitoring Team reports are adopted by consensus, meaning no UNSC member, including Pakistan’s ally China, opposed the reference to TRF or LeT in this case. According to Indian officials, this demonstrates growing international recognition of Pakistan’s