A Pakistan Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) on Thursday pronounced ten-and-a-half years imprisonment to 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed in two terror funding related cases. This is the fourth conviction of Saeed in 2020. Hafiz is currently serving a five-year sentence in another terror financing case in Lahore, ZeeNews reported.
A similar imprisonment was pronounced for three other JuD terrorists – Zafar Iqbal and Yahya Mujahid while Abdul Rehman Makki was sentenced to six months imprisonment. The court also ordered to con
fiscate all the properties of Hafiz Saeed.
Saeed, an UN-designated terrorist whom the US has placed a USD 10 million bounty on, was arrested on July 17, 2019, in the terror financing cases and four cases have been decided against him so far. A total of 41 cases have been registered against the leaders of Jamat-ud-Dawa, out of which 24 have been decided while the rest are pending in the ATC courts.
Saeed-led JuD is the front organization for the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) which is responsible for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, including six Americans. The US Department of the Treasury has designated Saeed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. He was listed under the UN Security Council Resolution 1267 in December 2008.
He was sentenced to 11 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court in February 2020 in two terror financing cases. He is lodged at Lahore’s high-security Kot Lakhpat jail, the report added.
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