Sajid Mir

Sajid Abdulmajid Mir (born 1976 or 1978) is a Pakistani national and a member of the militant organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba. and has also managed the tasks of the 'foreign affairs' of Lashkar-e-Taiba's international wing.

Declared as dead twice by Pakistani officials, he is still concerned by an international warrant by FBI.

Sajid Mir was initially claimed to be a fictitious character by Pakistan, but was revealed by French magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguière, in a statement to journalist Sebastian Rotella, as a real person. In 2009, Bruguiere also stated that Sajid Mir was a regular official in the Pakistan Army.

After the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Mir was indicted in the United States in 2011. He was sanctioned as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist in the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List on 30 August 2012 by the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control. In 2022, an Anti Terrorism Court of Pakistan convicted him of terror financing and sentenced him to 15 years of imprisonment.

Early life Sajid Abdulmajid Mir was born to a middle-class Punjabi Muslim family in Lahore. His father, Abdulmajid Mir, who runs a textile business, went to Lahore during the partition of India. Mir is a son-in-law of a retired officer of the Pakistan Army. He has been described as being fluent in Arabic, Urdu and English.

Militancy Mir was associated with Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed in 1994, and got early access to Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi. He had also planned terror attacks in the United States, France, Australia and Denmark (the latter for the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy) with alleged protection from the Inter-Services Intelligence. and Sajid Mir was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment. Willie Brigitte, who used to train Lashkar-e-Taiba members, confessed that Sajid Mir was well known by the Pakistan Army and that Mir never had any problems roaming in the Pakistan Army's areas.

2008 Mumbai attacks Sajid Mir was the chief plotter of the 2008 Mumbai attacks. To carry out the attack, Mir recruited David Coleman Headley (Daood Sayed Gilani) and assisted Headley in visiting Mumbai prior to the attacks. After the terror attack, the FBI listed Sajid Mir as a most wanted terrorist for aiding and abetting, bombing places of public use, providing material support to terrorists, injuring foreign government property, killing citizens outside the United States, and other terrorist activities. Mir has a bounty of US $5 million, as declared by the FBI. In 2012, Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari revealed in interrogation that Sajid Mir had visited India in 2005 with a fake name and passport under the cricket diplomacy to watch the India-Pakistan ODI Cricket match at Mohali. Ansari further revealed that after visiting several places in India, Sajid Mir prepared Taj Hotel's miniature model to familiarize the attackers with the hotel. In 2020, India sought the extradition of Sajid Mir, but Pakistan did not respond.

Arrest, conviction, and imprisonment Pakistan earlier denied Mir's presence in their country, and later claimed he died in 2012, but later arrested him in 2022. An anti-terrorism court in Lahore convicted Mir and sentenced him to 15 years of imprisonment with a fine of Pakistani Rs. 4,20,000 in a terror financing case. Pakistan reported to the global terror financing watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) that it had arrested and convicted Mir and sought removal of Pakistan from the 'Grey list' of the FATF. Pakistan was removed from the FATF grey list later that year.

In 2023, a proposal by the United States and India to designate him as a global terrorist was blocked by China. In December 2023, it was reported that Mir was poisoned in prison.

In popular culture Sajid Mir was portrayed by Mir Sarwar in the 2015 Indian film Phantom and by Faiz Khan in the 2025 Indian spy thriller film Dhurandhar and its sequel the 2026 film Dhurandhar: The Revenge.