LAHORE: Mumbai terror attack mastermind and head of Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) Hafiz saeed was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison by an anti-terrorist court in Pakistan in two more cases of terror.
Saeed, a UN-designated terrorist who was awarded a $ 10 million bounty by the United States, was arrested on July 17 last year in the terrorist financing cases. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison by an anti-terror court in February this year in two terrorist financing cases.
He is housed in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat high security prison.
“The Lahore Anti-Terrorism Tribunal (ATC) convicted four leaders of Jamat-ud-Dawa, including their boss Hafiz Saeed, in two more cases on Thursday,” a court official told PTI.
Saeed and his two close associates, Zafar Iqbal and Yahya Mujahid, have been sentenced to 10 and a half years each, while the brother-in-law of the JuD chief, Abdul Rehman Makki, was sentenced to six months in prison.
“ATC Court No. 1 Judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta heard Cases No. 16/19 and 25/19 brought by the Counter-Terrorism Department in which the verdict was announced after Naseeruddin Nayyar and Mohammad Imran questioned the statements of witnesses. Lawyer for Fazal Gul, “said the official.
The CTD has registered a total of 41 cases against JuD leaders, of which 24 have been resolved and the rest are pending in the ATC courts. So far four cases have been decided against Saeed.
The JuD, led by Saeed, is Lashkar-e-Toiba’s (LeT) front organization, responsible for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, including six Americans.
The United States Department of the Treasury has designated Saeed as a specially designated global terrorist. It was included in UN Security Council Resolution 1267 in December 2008.
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