An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced Sajid Mir, a member of the banned terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Sajid Mir, the alleged mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks this month, to 15 years in jail 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 prison,” said a senior lawyer associated with terrorism. The financing of Lashkar and Jamaat-ud-Dawa leaders told PTI on Friday.
Mir, on the wanted list of both the US and India for a decade, was presumed dead.
The Anti-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Punjab Police, which often issues convictions to suspects in such cases to the media, did not report Mir’s conviction in a terrorism financing case.
Also, since it was a closed-door proceedings in the jail, the media was not allowed.
The lawyer further said that the convict Mir, who is in his mid-40s, is in Kot Lakhpat jail since his arrest this April. He said that the court has also imposed a fine of more than Rs 4,00,000 on the guilty.
Sajid Mir, who has a $5 million bounty, 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. He allegedly came to India in 2005 using a fake passport in a fake name.
Earlier, Pakistani authorities At the June 14-17 plenary meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in Berlin, Western negotiators were informed that Sajid Mir was arrested in April and sentenced to eight years in prison after a trial , the reports said.
Pakistan is included The FATF’s gray list since June 2018 for failing a money laundering probe to finance terrorism.
The FATF is a global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog whose aim is to stop these illegal activities and prevent harm to society.
Security experts believe that the arrest of Sajid Mir by Pakistan is a well-planned plan of the Pakistani government which wants to get out of the gray list. Experts say that through the arrest of Mir, Pakistan wants to show that it is working against terrorism.
FATF, at a meeting held in Germany This year, Said said he would visit Pakistan at the earliest, indicating that the country is likely to be removed from its gray list.
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