Soon after the designation, China, said that it took the decision after it found no objection to the listing proposal by the US, the UK and France following a careful study of the "revised materials".

Welcoming China's decision to lift its hold on the proposal to blacklist the Pakistan-based JeM chief, a senior Trump administration official during a conference call with reporters said after 10 years China has done the right thing by lifting its blockade.

"I think China seems to have understood that it was increasingly important that it's actions on the international stage on terrorism matched it's rhetoric,” the White House official said on the condition of anonymity.