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A Pakistani Anti-Terrorism Court on Friday sentenced three leaders of Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed’s Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) terrorist organisation to six months in prison in a case of terror financing.
Saeed’s brother-in-law Hafiz Abdur Rehman Makki, spokesperson Yahya Mujahid and Zafar Iqbal were handed down the six-month imprisonment each by the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Lahore.
With Friday’s sentencing, the collective imprisonment of Mujahid and Iqbal has climbed to 80 and 56 years respectively. The verdicts against them will run concurrently in the terror financing cases registered by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Punjab police.
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January 23, 2021
LAHORE: The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Friday, while announcing another judgment in terror financing cases against leaders of the banned organisation Jamaatud Dawa (JuD), awarded six-month jail term each to Professor Zafar Iqbal and Yahyah Mujahid and Abdul Rehman Makki. Earlier, the ATC had convicted Chief of the banned Jamaatud Dawa Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and five other JuD leaders in another case of terror financing and terrorism. The court has convicted these JuD leaders in a case registered by Counter Terrorism Department. (CTD). According to details, on July 3, 2019, the top 13 leaders of the JuD were booked in multiple cases of terror financing and money-laundering under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) 1997. The CTD, which registered the cases in five cities of Punjab, declared that the JuD was financing terrorism from the funds collected through non-profit organisations and trusts including Al-Anfaal Trust, Dawatul Irshad Trust, Muaz Bin Jabal Trus
Saeed s brother-in-law Hafiz Abdur Rehman Makki, JuD spokesperson Yahya Mujahid and Zafar Iqbal were handed down the six-month imprisonment each by the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Lahore.
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LAHORE: The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Friday, while announcing another judgment in terror financing cases against leaders of the banned organisation Jamaatud Dawa (JuD), awarded six-month jail term each to Professor Zafar Iqbal and Yahyah Mujahid and Abdul Rehman Makki.
Earlier, the ATC had convicted Chief of the banned Jamaatud Dawa Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and five other JuD leaders in another case of terror financing and terrorism.
The court has convicted these JuD leaders in a case registered by Counter Terrorism Department. (CTD) According to details, on July 3, 2019, the top 13 leaders of the JuD were booked in multiple cases of terror financing and money-laundering under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) 1997. The CTD, which registered the cases in five cities of Punjab, declared that the JuD was financing terrorism from the funds collected through non-profit organisations and trusts including Al-Anfaal Trust, Dawatul Irshad Trust, Muaz Bin Jabal Trust, etc.