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Following the UN's designation of Masood Azhar as a global terrorist, a think tank ropes in experts to shed light on the development
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On April 30, the UN designated Azhar as a global threat. It was a major diplomatic win for India. But why did China change its mind? That is what a talk at Observer Research Foundation's Mumbai chapter hopes to dissect, along with top bureaucrats and experts Gautam Bambawale, former Ambassador to Pakistan and China, Prabha Rao, an expert on radicalisation in Asia, and author Tilak Devasher.
Gautam Bambawale and Dhaval Desai
"There is a lot of inference made by the media, but people who have held important positions in the diplomatic circles are better placed to comment on this," explains Dhaval Desai, head of ORF, Mumbai.
"Most of this discourse is confined to Delhi. But Mumbai being the financial capital of the country, it's an irony that even mega industrial and business events are all held in the capital," Desai laments. "This is a matter of national and international significance, because the right-minded world has managed to come together against terrorism," he shares.
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