India, June 10 -- The United States has blocked a joint bid by Pakistan and China at the UN Security Council to designate the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and it's ally, the Majeed Brigade, as a terrorist entity.

The US, along with France and the United Kingdom, blocked this month the Sino-Pakistan bid submitted to the Security Council in September last year by Islamabad and Beijing, news agency PTI reported. They had sought to blacklist the BLA and the Majeed Brigade under the Council's 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee.

It is worth noting that all three countries that blocked the bid are permanent veto-wielding members of the Security Council.

Pakistan currently sits in the 15-nation Security Council as a non-permanent member fo...