Pakistan appointed to chair the 1988 Taliban Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for 2025. The committee is responsible for imposing sanctions along with asset freezes, travel bans, and arms embargoes towards people and entities related to the Taliban that pose a risk to peace and security in Afghanistan. Guyana and Russia will position vice-chairs of the committee.
UNSC Taliban sanctions committee 2025
In addition to this key position, Pakistan serve as vice-chair of the 1373 Counter-Terrorism Committee, that allows you to be chaired by Algeria, with France and Russia also acting as vice-chairs. Furthermore, Pakistan will co-chair the Informal Working Groups on Documentation and Procedural Questions and General Sanctions Issues. Denmark will lead the 1267 ISIL and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee, with Russia and Sierra Leone as vice-chairs.
These committees made of all 15 Security Council individuals and make choices by consensus. Pakistan is currently serving as a non-permanent member of the Security Council for the 2025–26 time period.
Taliban-linked entities Banned
Previously, India chaired the Counter-Terrorism Committee in 2022 during time period as a non-permanent member (2021–22) and has frequently raise problems on Pakistan’s file, noting that country have range of UN-distinct terrorists. It also marks case of Osama bin Laden, who discovered and killed in Pakistan’s Abbottabad in 2011.
The current UNSC consists of 5 permanent individuals: China, France, Russia, the UK, and America, and 10 non-permanent contributors: Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panama, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, and Somalia.
In elections held on Tuesday, 5 new non-permanent individuals elected for the 2026–2027 term: Bahrain, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Latvia, and Colombia
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