Pakistan court jails 2 more aides of Hafiz Saeed

TIL Desk/World/Lahore/ A Pakistani court has jailed two more aides of Mumbai attack mastermind and Jamat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed in a terror financing case.  The Anti-Terrorism Court of Lahore on Friday handed down six and five-and-a-half years of imprisonment to JuD leaders Muhammad Ashraf and Lucman Shah, respectively.  

ATC Judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on each of them.  On Thursday, the 70-year-old JuD chief was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment in two terror cases by ATC Lahore. Saeed’s two close aides — Zafar Iqbal and Yahya Mujahid — were sentenced to 10 and a half years each, while his brother-in-law Abdul Rehman Makki was sentenced to six months of imprisonment in the same cases.    

Saeed, a UN designated terrorist whom the US has placed a USD 10 million bounty on, 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 JuD chief is lodged at Lahore’s high-security Kot Lakhpat jail.