Terrorist Hafiz Saeed sentenced to 31 years in jail

Islamabad, April 9: An anti-Terrosim court in Pakistan has sentenced Islamic terrorist Hafiz Saeed to 31 years in jail. The court also ordered the seizure of all his assets. It has alsoimposed a monetary fine on Saeed.

 

 

Hafiz Saeed is the founder of the banned Islamic terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba and has been the mastermind of many terrorist attacks against India, including the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. He has been also involved in terror financing. Apart from this, he also heads the Jamaat-ud-Dawa terror outfit.

 

 

The court also imposed a fine of PKR 3,40,000 on the UN-designated terrorist who is co-founder of the Lashkar-e-Toiba terror outfit. The sentence was handed out by Ejaz Ahmad Buttar, Judge, Lahore Anti-Terrorism court under various sections of Pakistan's Anti-terrorism Act, 1997.

 

 

"This is to authorize and require you, the said Superintendent to receive the said convict Hafiz Muhammad Saeed s/o Kamal Din into your custody in the said jail, with this warrant and to keep him there safely until you receive further warrant or order of this court, carrying into effect the order of the court according to law," the warrant of commitment of sentence read.

 

He has been in Lahore central jail since his sentencing in 2020 in a terror funding case. Notably, Pakistan has been on the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for failing to check money laundering leading to terror financing.