Sajid Mir (Urdu: ساجد میر, born 1976 or 1978)[1] is a Pakistani national from Lahore and a member of the militant organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba.
[4] Sajid Mir was initially believed to be a fictitious character, as claimed by Pakistan,[5][6] but was later revealed by French magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguière's statement to journalist Sebastian Rotella as being a real person.
[11] China has prevented the United Nations Security Council from designating Mir as a global terrorist under the Al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee.
[15] With the protection of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), he also planned terror attacks in the United States, France, Australia and Denmark (the latter for the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy).
For the attack plan, Mir recruited Willie Brigitte, a French national who converted to Islam and joined Lashkar-e-Taiba.
[25][26] 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.