China puts hold on proposal at UN to blackl 26/11 LeT handler Sajid Mir

China has put a hold on a proposal moved at the United Nations the US and co-supported India to designate Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror Sajid Mir, one of India’s most wanted terrors and the main handler of the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks, as a global terror.
It is learnt that Beijing put a hold Thursday on the proposal moved the US and co-designated India to blackl Mir under the 1267 Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council as a global terror and subject him to assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo.
Mir is one of India’s most wanted terrors and has a bounty of USD 5 million placed on his head the US for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
In June this year, he was jailed for over 15 years in a terror-financing case an anti-terrorism court in Pakan, which is struggling to exit the grey l of the FATF.
Pakani authorities had in the past claimed Mir had died, but Western countries remained unconvinced and demanded proof of his death. This issue became a major sticking point in FATF’s assessment of Pakan’s progress on the action plan late last year.
Mir is a senior member of the Pakan-based LeT and is wanted for his involvement in the November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai. “Mir was LeT’s operations manager for the attacks, playing a leading role in their planning, preparation and execution,” the US State Department has said.
Last month, China had put a hold on a proposal the US and India at the United Nations to blackl Abdul Rauf Azhar, the brother of Jaish-e Mohammed (JEM) chief Masood Azhar and a senior leader of the Pakan-based terror organisation. Abdul Rauf Azhar, born in 1974 in Pakan, was sanctioned the US in December 2010.
Beijing, an all-weather friend of Islamabad, has repeatedly put holds on lings to blackl Pakan-based terrors under the sanctions committee of the UN Security Council. In June this year, China had put a hold, at the last moment, on a joint proposal India and the US to l Pakan-based terror Abdul Rehman Makki under the 1267 Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council.
Makki is a US-designated terror and brother-in-law of Lashkar-e-Taiba head and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed. New Delhi and Washington had put a joint proposal to designate Makki as a global terror under the 1267 ISIL and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council but Beijing placed a hold on this proposal at the last minute here.
The State Department had said that Mir has been a senior member of LeT since approximately 2001. From 2006 to 2011, Mir was in charge of LeT’s external operations and planned and directed various terror attacks on behalf of the group. Additionally, Mir allegedly conspired to commit a terror attack against a newspaper and its employees in Denmark between 2008 and 2009.
For his role in the Mumbai attacks, Mir was indicted in the United States in April 2011. In August 2012, the US Department of the Treasury designated Mir as a Specially Designated Global Terror. As a result of this designation, among other consequences, all property and interests in property of Mir that are subject to US jurisdiction are blocked, and US persons are generally prohibited from engaging in any transactions with Mir.
“Mir is on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrors L. He is believed to reside in Pakan,” according to information on the State Department website.