Image Source : AP Pak anti-terrorism courtroom jails terrorist Hafiz Saeed’s 3 aides in terror financing case
A Pakistani Anti-Terrorism Court has sentenced three leaders of Mumbai assault mastermind Hafiz Saeed’s Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) terrorist organisation to 6 months in jail in a case of terror financing. Saeed’s brother-in-law Hafiz Abdur Rehman Makki, JuD spokesperson Yahya Mujahid and Zafar Iqbal have been handed down the six-month imprisonment every by the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Lahore.
With Friday’s sentencing, the collective imprisonment of Mujahid and Iqbal has climbed to 80 and 56 years respectively.
The verdicts in opposition to them will run concurrently within the terror financing circumstances registered by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Punjab police.
“ATC-II Presiding Judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta announced the verdict in FIR No 32 of 2019 against Zafar Iqbal, Abdul Rehman Makki and Yahya Mujahid,” a courtroom official instructed PTI.
The three convicts have been current within the courtroom when the choose introduced the decision, he stated.
The CTD had registered as many as 41 circumstances in opposition to the leaders of the JuD in numerous cities of Punjab, the courtroom official stated, including that the trial courts have up to now determined 37 circumstances.
In a current verdict, operations commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was given a 15-year imprisonment on three counts in a case of terror financing.
Early this week, the ATC handed down a 14-year imprisonment every to Iqbal and Mujahid whereas a six-month sentence to Makki in one other terror financing case.
The ATC has sentenced Saeed for a collective imprisonment of 36 years on terror finance costs in 5 circumstances up to now. His jail phrases will run concurrently.
The LeT, led by JuD chief Saeed, is accountable for finishing up the 2008 Mumbai assault that killed 166 individuals, together with six Americans.
Saeed, a UN designated terrorist whom the US has positioned a USD 10 million bounty on, was arrested on July 17 final 12 months within the terror financing circumstances.
The 70-year-old JuD chief is lodged at Lahore’s high-security Kot Lakhpat jail.
The US Department of the Treasury has designated Saeed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. He was listed underneath the UN Security Council Resolution 1267 in December 2008.
The international terror financing watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is instrumental in pushing Pakistan to take measures in opposition to terrorists roaming freely in Pakistan and utilizing its territory to hold out assaults in India and elsewhere.
The Paris-based FATF positioned Pakistan on the Grey List in June 2018 and requested Islamabad to implement a plan of motion to curb cash laundering and terror financing by the top of 2019 however the deadline was prolonged afterward attributable to COVID-19 pandemic.
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