26/11 Mumbai terror assault handler jailed for 15 years in Pakistan

An anti-terrorism court docket in Pakistan awarded a 15-year jail time period in a terror financing case to Sajid Mir, an operative of the proscribed terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba and the alleged mastermind behind the 26/11 Mumbai assaults this month.

“An anti-terrorism court in Lahore early this month handed down a 15-year jail term to Sajid Majeed Mir, an activist of banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), on a terror financing case,” a senior lawyer related to terror financing instances of LeT and Jamaat-ud-Dawa leaders advised PTI on Friday.

Mir, who was on the wished record of each the US and India for a decade, was presumed lifeless.

The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Punjab Police, which frequently points convictions of suspects in such instances to the media, didn’t notify Mir’s conviction in a terror financing case.

Besides, because it was an in-camera continuing in jail, the media was not allowed.

The lawyer additional mentioned convict Mir, who’s in his mid 40s, has been within the Kot Lakhpat jail since his arrest this April. He mentioned the court docket additionally imposed a fantastic of over Rs 4,00,000 on the convict.

Sajid Mir, who has a bounty of $5 million, is on India’s most wished record for his position within the 26/11 Mumbai assaults that left 166 folks lifeless. Mir was known as “project manager” of the Mumbai assaults. He reportedly had visited India in 2005 utilizing a faux passport in a faux title.

Earlier, the Pakistani authorities within the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) plenary assembly held in Berlin from June 14-17 had knowledgeable the Western interlocutors that Sajid Mir was arrested in April and was given an eight-year jail time period after a trial, experiences mentioned.

Pakistan has been included within the FATF grey record since June 2018 for failing to examine cash laundering resulting in terror financing.

FATF is a worldwide cash laundering and terrorist financing watchdog that goals to stop these unlawful actions and hurt they trigger to society.

Security consultants imagine that Pakistan’s arrest of Sajid Mir is a well-thought plan by the Pakistani authorities that wishes to get off of the grey record. Experts say that Pakistan, via the arrest of Mir, desires to point out that they’re working towards terrorism.

FATF, in its assembly held in Germany this 12 months, mentioned that it’ll conduct an on-site go to to Pakistan on the earliest potential date, indicating that the nation is more likely to be faraway from its gray record.

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