By PTI
NEW DELHI: Hafiz Talha Saeed, the son of 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults mastermind and LeT founder Hafiz Saeed, has been declared a terrorist by the federal government.
In a notification, the Union house ministry stated that Hafiz Talha Saeed, 46, has been actively concerned in recruitment, fund assortment, and planning and executing assaults by the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in India and Indian pursuits in Afghanistan.
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He has additionally been actively visiting varied LeT centres throughout Pakistan, and through his sermons propagating for jihad in opposition to India, Israel, the United States of America and Indian pursuits in different western nations, it acknowledged.
“And whereas, the central government believes that Hafiz Talha Saeed is involved in terrorism and he should be notified as a terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (37 of 1967),” the notification stated.
Hafiz Saeed was the mind behind the Mumbai terror assaults of November 26, 2008, through which 166 folks had been killed.
He had been declared a terrorist beneath the identical legislation a couple of years in the past and is at present serving a jail time period in Pakistan on terror fees.
India has been persistently looking for Hafiz Saeed’s custody however Pakistan has refused to take action.
Apart from the 26/11 assaults, the LeT has been answerable for a sequence of lethal assaults in India, largely in Jammu and Kashmir, through which scores of civilians and safety personnel have been killed through the years.
