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United Nations (The Hawk): By shielding four important leaders of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) organisation that carried out the 26/11 Mumbai attack from UN penalties, China has continued to ignore the other Security Council members and the overwhelming anti-terrorism opinion. At least 166 people were killed in the incident 14 years ago, and Beijing is collaborating with Islamabad to undermine counterterrorism measures against the terrorists who carried out the massacre and are based in Pakistan. Sajid Mir, the group's commander who oversaw the 26/11 attack, deputy chief Abdur Rehman Makki, deputy chief of the LeT front Falah-I-Insaniyat Foundation Shahid Mahmood, and LeT commander Hafiz Talha Saeed, the son of LeT chief Hafiz Muhammed Saeed, were the four members of LeT who received China's umbrella this year. Additionally, China halted sanctions against Abdul Rauf, the deputy commander of the terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed. Prior to adopting a hard approach in support of other LeT leaders in a show of sympathy with Pakistan, China had initially permitted eight LeT leaders to be sanctioned: four in the month following the 26/11 incident and four later. According to India's Permanent Representative Ruchira Kamboj, "Our efforts to prosecute the perpetrators and enablers of these terror incidents were obstructed in the past for political reasons." She claimed that "these actors" were still at large and planning other cross-border strikes against her nation. John Kelley, the political coordinator for the US Permanent Mission, expressed regret at the same meeting that only one organisation had been added to this year's sanctions list and emphasised that "the important work of this committee must remain free from politicisation ...