26/11 Mumbai Terror Attacker Jailed For 15 Years In Pakistan

Sajid Majeed Mir was a main handler of the 2008 Mumbai attacks

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has announced 15 years jail term in a terror-financing case for the main handler other deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks.

“An anti-terrorism court in Lahore early this month had handed down over 15 years jail term to Sajid Majeed Mir, an activist of banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), on a terror-financing case,” a senior lawyer associated with terror financing cases of LeT and Jamaat-ud-Dawa leaders told media on Friday.

The Counter-Terrorism Department of the Punjab Police, which often issues convictions of the suspects in such cases to the media, did not notify Mir’s conviction in terror-financing case.

The media was not allowed as it was an in-camera proceeding at the jail.

The lawyer further said convict Mir, who is in the mid-40s, has been in the Kot Lakhpat jail since his arrest in April. He said the court also imposed a fine of over Rs 400,000 to the convict.

Earlier, it was assumed that Mir was dead.

Before the last meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Pakistan reportedly told the agency that it had arrested and prosecuted Sajid Mir in order to seek its removal from the FATF ‘Grey list’.

Sajid Mir has a bounty of USD 5 Million is in India’s most wanted list for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks that left 166 people dead.

Mir was the “project manager” of the Mumbai attacks. Mir had visited India in 2005 using a fake passport and other documents.

Mumbai terror attacks mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Saeed has already been sentenced for 68 years imprisonment in terror financing cases by the Lahore ATC.

The sentence is running concurrently, which means he will not have to spend many years in jail.

Mumbai attack operation commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi is also convicted for several years in jail. Both Saeed and Maki are also in Kot Lapkhapt jail in Lahore.

Saeed, an N-designated terrorist on whom the US has placed a USD 10 million bounty, was arrested on July 2019 in the terror financing cases.

Saeed-led JuD is the front organization for the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) which is responsible for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attack that also left six Americans dead.

The US Department of the Treasury has designated Saeed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.

The global terror financing watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is pushing Islamabad to take measures against terrorists roaming freely in Pakistan and using its territory to carry out attacks in India.