Tag: Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)

  • US welcomes arrest of 26/11 assault mastermind and LeT commander Lakhvi

    The US has welcomed the arrest of Mumbai assault mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi in Pakistan, terming it an “important step” in holding him answerable for his position in supporting terrorism and its financing.
    Lakhvi was arrested on Saturday in Pakistan on terror financing prices, amidst rising worldwide stress on Islamabad to carry to justice terrorists roaming free within the nation.
    UN proscribed terrorist Lakhvi, who was on bail since 2015 within the Mumbai assault case, was arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab province.
    “We welcome Pakistan’s arrest of terrorist leader Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi as an important step in holding him responsible for his role in supporting terrorism and its financing,” the South and Central Asia Bureau of the State Department stated in a tweet.
    “We will follow his prosecution and sentencing closely and urge that he be held accountable for his involvement in the Mumbai attacks,” it stated on Tuesday.
    Lakhvi was designated as a worldwide terrorist by the UN in December 2008 for being related to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and al-Qaeda and for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of” each the entities.

    Last month, the UN Security Council’s 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee allowed for a month-to-month fee of Pakistani Rupees 1.5 lakh for Lakhvi to fulfill his private bills.
    The LeT, led by Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, is answerable for finishing up the 2008 Mumbai assault that killed 166 folks, together with six Americans.

    The international terror financing watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is instrumental in pushing Pakistan to take measures towards 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 tip of 2019 however the deadline was prolonged afterward because of COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Mumbai assault mastermind and LeT operations commander Lakhvi arrested in Pak: Official

    Mumbai assault mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was arrested on Saturday in Pakistan on terror financing prices, an official stated.
    Lakhvi, who was on bail since 2015 within the Mumbai assault case, was arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab province.
    However, the CTD didn’t reveal the place of his arrest. “Following an intelligence-based operation conducted by the CTD Punjab, proscribed organisation LeT leader Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was arrested on charges of terrorism financing,” it stated.
    It additional stated that Lakhvi, 61, was arrested in a case of terrorism financing registered in a police station of CTD Lahore.

    “Lakhvi is accused of running a dispensary, using funds collected for terrorism financing. He and others also collected funds from this dispensary and used these funds for further terrorism financing. He also used these funds for personal expenses,” the CTD stated.

    The CTD stated that along with belonging to proscribed organisation LeT, Lakhvi can also be a UN designated particular person.
    “His trial will be held before the Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore,” it added.

  • Two Pakistan Army soldiers killed along LoC opposite Naushera sector by Indian Army

     Two Pakistan Army soldiers killed along LoC opposite Naushera sector by Indian Army while retaliating to ceasefire violation by the Pakistan Army there yesterday, said Sources on Wednesday.

    On Sunday, security forces gunned down two Pakistani terrorists in Durgan Poshana area of Jammu and Kashmir’s district. The foreign terrorists have been identified as Sajid and Bilal, both members of proscribed terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). One terrorist has also been caught alive from the encounter site

    This is a developing story.