Pakistan has not yet brought charges against him for his involvement in the terrorist strikes in Mumbai.
Digital Desk: A United Nations (UN) resolution that would have named the primary mastermind of the November 26 attacks in Mumbai as a foreign terrorist organisation has been postponed by China. The US and India both supported the resolution to delist Sajid Mir, a terrorist with the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
China prevented the UN Security Council's 1267 Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee from designating Sajid Mir as a global terrorist (UNSC).
The US had proposed placing Mir under an asset freeze, travel ban, and arms embargo. The US has set a $5 million bounty on Mir's head.
Sajid Mir was given a 15-year jail term in June in a case involving the financing of terrorism. Pakistan has been working to remove itself from the Financial Action Task Force's (FAFT) "grey list."
Pakistan has not yet brought charges against him for his involvement in the terrorist strikes in Mumbai.
All initiatives this year to put terrorists with ties to Pakistan on a blacklist have been put on hold by China. A US-backed petition to blacklist Abdul Rauf Azhar, the brother of Jaish-e Mohammed (JEM) chairman Masood Azhar and a prominent commander of the Pakistan-based terror group, was put on hold technically last month.
Another joint motion supported by the US, India, and the 1267 Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee against Abdul Rehman Makki was rejected by China in June of this year.
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