Overview

• Pakistan will chair the UN Security Council’s 1988 Taliban Sanctions Committee for 2025, overseeing measures against individuals and entities linked to the Taliban.
• Islamabad will serve as vice-chair of the 1373 Counter-Terrorism Committee under Algeria’s chairmanship, with France and Russia as fellow vice-chairs.
• Guyana and Russia will act as vice-chairs of the Taliban sanctions committee while Pakistan co-chairs working groups on procedural and general sanctions issues.
• Pakistan holds a non-permanent seat on the 15-member Security Council for 2025–26 at a time of longstanding tensions with India over alleged militant safe havens.
• The Council also elected Bahrain, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Latvia and Colombia as non-permanent members for the 2026–27 term.