New York, Aug. 20 -- India has strongly called for transparency and objectivity in the United Nations Security Council's process of listing and delisting terrorist organisations, cautioning against using the platform for narrow political agendas in a veiled criticism of Pakistan's role in dealing with terrorism.

Addressing the UNSC Open Debate on Working Methods on Wednesday (local time), India's Charge d'Affaires at the UN Mission, Yojna Patel, stated, "Presence in the Security Council must not be instrumentalised to legitimise terrorists by attempting to de-list them or to list other entities as terrorist organisations based solely on political considerations, without any objective criteria or supporting documentation."

Patel also hig...