Hafiz Saeed, the co-founder of the terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Toiba and the leader of another terror group, Jamaat-ud-Dawah, was sentenced to 31 years in prison in two cases, according to Pakistani media. The anti-terrorism court that found Saeed guilty also fined the feared terrorists.
The anti-terrorism court has previously sentenced Hafiz Saeed to prison. In one of several terror financing charges against him, he was sentenced to almost 15 years in prison in 2020.
Saeed, who has planned and supported a number of terrorist acts, was the mastermind behind the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks, in which ten members of the Lashkar-e-Toiba carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across India’s financial centre over four days. There were 166 people dead and hundreds more injured.
The United States has a $10 million bounty on Saeed’s head as an UN-designated terrorist. Hafiz Saeed has been recognised as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US Treasury Department. In December 2008, he was added to the UN Security Council Resolution 1267 list.
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global watchdog on terror financing, has been pressuring Pakistan to take action against terrorists who are free to travel the country and use its soil to carry out strikes in India.
