Hypocritical Pakistan's Open Poll: 26/11 mumbai Attack master Mind Sajid Mir Zinda, ISI Called Most wanted 'Murda'
Sajid Mir was responsible for the security of Lashkar-e-Taiba's operations chief Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi till 2010. He not only recruited terrorists abroad but also ran terrorist camps in Pakistan.
Pakistan has detained Sajid Mir, the mastermind of the 2008 mumbai terror attacks. Earlier, the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI had claimed the death of Sajid, declared the most wanted by the FBI. According to experts, pakistan has pretended to punish Mir to get out of the gray list of FATF.
According to the Nikkei Asia report, an FBI official has told that Mir is alive, in custody, and sentenced in Pakistan. In 2011, Mir was included on the most wanted list by the FBI with a $ 5 million bounty on him. Both the US and india have been searching for him for a decade. Sajid, close to Lashkar leader Hafiz Saeed, is believed to be the handler of mumbai attack planner David Coleman Headley and other terrorists.
Pakistan wants to show by the arrest of Sajid Mir that he is working against terrorism. This arrest is being called a plan to get out of the gray list of FATF. pakistan has been on the gray list of FATF since june 2018. This time in the meeting held in Germany, the FATF had said that it would decide to take pakistan out of the gray list after conducting ground tests. In such a situation, pakistan wants to show that it is working openly against terrorism.
Sajid Mir was responsible for the security of Lashkar-e-Taiba's operations chief Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi till 2010. He not only recruited terrorists abroad but also ran terrorist camps in Pakistan. He was also part of the ISI's indian Mujahideen operation, which was called the Karachi Project.
