One of India’s most wanted terrorists and the main handler of 26/11 Mumbai attacks, Sajid Majeed Mir has been sentenced to 15 years by a Pakistani court. Till now it was known about Sajjad Mir that he had died. An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks to more than 15 years in prison in a terror financing case.
Earlier this month, an anti-terrorism court in Lahore sentenced Sajid Majeed Mir, an activist of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), to 15 years in jail, a senior lawyer associated with terrorism said.
Ahead of the last meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Pakistan reportedly told the agency that it had arrested and prosecuted Sajid Mir for demanding his removal from the Financial Action Task Force’s ‘grey list’ was.
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Sajid Mir, who carries a USD 5 million bounty on his head, is on India’s most wanted list for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks in which 166 people were killed.
Mir was called the project manager of the Mumbai attacks. Mir had allegedly come to India in 2005 using a fake passport in a fake name. The alleged mastermind of the Mumbai terror attack and Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed has already been sentenced to 68 years in jail by the Lahore ATC in terrorism financing cases. The sentences are running concurrently, meaning he will not have to spend several years in jail .
Operation Commander of Mumbai attack Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi has also been sentenced to several years in jail. Both Saeed and Maki are also in Lahore’s Kot Lapkhapat Jail.
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UN-designated terrorist Saeed on whom the US has placed a bounty of USD 10 million, was arrested in July 2019 on terrorism financing charges. Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawa is the lead organization for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which is responsible for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, in which six Americans were also killed. The US Treasury Department named Saeed Designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global terror financing watchdog, has been instrumental in motivating Islamabad to act against terrorists roaming freely in Pakistan and to use its territory to carry out attacks in India. The Financial Action Task Force placed Pakistan on the gray list in June 2018 and asked Islamabad to implement an action plan to curb money laundering.
