New Delhi: Even as Pakistan is making no perceptible moves to act against the list of most wanted handed over by India, New Delhi will soon move the United Nations to get back Jaish-e-Mohammad leader Maulana Masood Azhar, who is an accused in the 1999 hijack of Indian Airlines IC 814 which was taken to Kandahar.
Sources have told CNN-IBN that the Government is considering moving the United Nations Security Council for getting the Jaish chief.
India is planning to approach the UNSC to get Masood Azhar listed under Resolution 1267 as it wants Pakistan to deport the Jaish chief to India.
The listing would make it difficult for Islamabad to not take any action against him.
India toughened its stand on Wednesday, a day after Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani called the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack dossier as mere information and not evidence.
Since the Mumbai attacks in November 2008, India has made repeated demands to Pakistan for the extradition of Masood Azhar along with some other terrorists and criminals but Pakistan has been making series of contradictory statements on the Jaish chief.
Masood Azhar along with two other terrorists - Harkat-ul-Ansar/Al Faran chief Umar Saeed Sheikh and Al Umar chief Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar - was released in exchange for the lives of 155 passengers and crew of the hijacked Indian Airlines flight IC 814 in Kandahar.
Meanwhile, New Delhi has also issued a statement in response to Gilani saying that India has not given any proof of its national being involved in the Mumbai terror attack.
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's has said that Gilani's denial is a continuing pattern of evasiveness on Pakistan's part and blamed Islamabad of evading the real issues.
Mukherjee also said that India is doubtful if Pakistan will ever take action against terrorists.
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