China Again Blocks Attempt to Declare 26/11 Terror Accused as Global Terrorist

New Delhi: China again declined to list Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist and 2008 Mumbai attacks accused, Sajid Mir, as a global terrorist.

India reacted strongly to this decision of China. India and the US had made joint proposal to designate Sajid Mir as global terrorist. Sajid is said to be serving a jail sentence in Pakistan.

“The mastermind of the Mumbai terror attacks Sajid Mir – was listed as a proscribed terrorist – under the national laws of India, of the United States, and of several other countries. But when the proposal for listing Sajid Mir did not get through the Global Listings of the UNSC sanctions regime despite several member states co-sponsoring it, we have righteous reasons to believe that something is genuinely wrong with the global counter-terrorism architecture,” said Prakash Gupta, Joint Secretary UN (Political) at MEA.

He was speaking at a high-level United Nations (UN) conference on counter-terrorism.

“Avoid double standards and this self-defeating justification of good terrorists vs bad terrorists,” he said.

India, he said, wanted the UN sanctions regime to devise methods to “secure the successful listing of genuine and evidence-based objective listing proposals”.