India plays audio clip of 26/11 plot after China stops UN blacklisting of Sajid Mir

New Delhi: India on Tuesday played a sound clip of 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Sajid Mir, speaking at a UN counter-terrorism conference, asking the attackers to kill foreigners at the Taj Hotel. India’s strong reaction comes after China on Tuesday blocked a proposal by India and the US at the United Nations to nominate Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Sajid Mir, accused of involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. Globally wanted. Terrorist. Addressing the UNSC Terror Meet, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, Prakash Gupta said, “The non-inclusion of Sajid Mir in the UNSC global list, despite several member states supporting the move, shows that the global counter-terrorism architecture has really failed.” Something is wrong.”

He said India does not have the real political will to fight the challenge of terrorism if established terrorists like Mir do not make it to the UNSC global list because of “petty geopolitical interests”.

China blocks list of 26/11 terror attack mastermind Sajid Mir, India plays audio of Pak national at UN counter terror meet; Indian diplomat @PrakashMEA calls the action “petty politics”, and that ‘there is something really wrong with the global counter-terrorism architecture’ pic.twitter.com/RaMGAZPMdv

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Prakash Gupta said the masterminds are still free and enjoying the support of the state. He said the first gap to address was to avoid double standards and good terrorists versus bad terrorists. He said terrorism is always wrong and India will not rest until it is rooted out.

The Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs quoted PM Modi’s words from last year and said that India is determined to combat terrorism. He said Mir was India’s most wanted terrorist for his role in the Mumbai attacks. He was the chief planner and controller of the attacks. India says China has blocked several attempts to list terrorists in Pakistan.

The US and India had jointly proposed placing Mir, a global terrorist and a Pakistan-based Lashkar leader, on the blacklist of the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council. This would have made him subject to an asset freeze, a travel ban and an arms embargo. However, China vetoed the resolution on Tuesday, as it had done in September last year.

Mir is in his early 40s and has a USD 5 million bounty on his head by the US for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. In June last year, he was sentenced to over 15 years in prison by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan in a terror financing case. Pakistan had earlier claimed that Mir had died, but Western countries did not agree and asked for proof.

This became a major issue in the FATF’s assessment of Pakistan’s progress on the action plan last year. Mir has been with LeT since 2001 and was the operations manager for the Mumbai attacks. He also planned a terrorist attack against a Danish newspaper and its employees between 2008 and 2009. The US indicted him in April 2011 and designated him as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist in August 2012. He is also on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list.

China, a close ally of Pakistan, has repeatedly blocked efforts at the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Pakistan-based terrorists.