UNITED NATIONS, Jan 10: Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Toiba leader Hafiz Saeed is in the custody of the Pakistan Government and is serving a 78-year imprisonment sentence following his conviction in terror financing cases, the UN has said in updated information.
Saeed, 73, was designated as a global terrorist by the UN Security Council’s Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee in December 2008.
He is in the “custody of the Government of Pakistan serving a 78-year imprisonment sentence since 12 February 2020 as a result of a conviction in seven terror financing cases,” the Sanctions Committee said in an amended entry posted through a press release on the UN website.
Saeed’s address is listed as House No. 116E, Mohalla Johar, Lahore, Tehsil, Lahore City, Lahore District, Pakistan “as of” May 2008.
In December, India asked Pakistan to extradite Saeed, the 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind who Indian probe agencies want in several terror cases.
Last month, the Security Council 1267 Committee enacted a few amendments to certain entries on its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaeda Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo. Saeed is among those whose information has been amended and the updated details have been made available through the press release.
Under these amendments, the Sanctions Committee also noted that Hafiz Abdul Salam Bhuttavi, founding member of Lashkar-e-Toiba and deputy to Saeed is “confirmed deceased.”
Bhuttavi, a UNSC-designated terrorist who trained the Lashkar-e-Toiba attackers for the 2008 Mumbai terror attack and acted as the outfit’s chief on at least two occasions, died in a prison in May last year in Pakistan’s Punjab province while serving a sentence for terror financing.
The Sanctions Committee also noted that Maulana Fazlullah, commander of Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), was “confirmed deceased on 13 June 2018.” TTP commander since November 2013, Fazlullah led the local TTP in Pakistan’s northwest valley of Swat from 2007 to 2009.(PTI)
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