Overview
- Pakistan’s UN envoy, Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, made the appeal at a Security Council briefing on Sunday, September 13, 2026, calling for a renewed global counterterrorism framework.
- He urged the Council to tighten sanctions and close loopholes in financial oversight because terrorists are using the dark web, virtual assets and cryptocurrencies to move money and coordinate attacks.
- The ambassador named specific groups of concern — Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Balochistan Liberation Army, East Turkestan Islamic Movement and Daesh — and asked for more effective international action against them.
- Pakistan stressed its role in degrading Al-Qaida while noting the domestic cost of that effort, saying more than 90,000 Pakistanis have died since 2000 and that over 4,700 were killed in the past three years in attacks linked to threats from Afghanistan.
- The request frames several policy priorities for the Council: update sanctions design, strengthen oversight of virtual assets, improve regional cooperation and hold occupying powers to account, but the Council has not adopted any new measures in response.