Pak court gives Saeed 10-yr jail in 2 more cases

Sentencing comes after FATF retained Pak on grey list

Lahore, November 19

Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed was on Thursday sentenced to 10 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan in two more terror financing cases.

Saeed, a UN designated terrorist on whom the US put a $10 million bounty, was arrested on July 17 last year in the terror financing cases. He was sentenced to 11 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court in February this year in two terror financing cases.

The 70-year-old JuD chief is lodged at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail. “The Anti-Terrorism Court of Lahore on Thursday sentenced four JuD leaders, including its chief Hafiz Saeed, in two more cases,” said a court official.

Thursday’s sentencing comes weeks after Paris-based terrorist financing watchdog — Financial Action Task Force – retained Pakistan on its grey list till February 2021 as Islamabad failed to fulfil the agency’s six key obligations, including failure to take action against two of India’s most wanted terrorists — Saeed and Maulana Masood Azhar. — PTI