Islamabad, Pakistan:
Mumbai terror attack mastermind and outlaw Jamat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed is in custody in Pakistan serving a 78-year prison sentence following conviction in seven terror financing cases, the UN said in updated information.
In December, India asked Pakistan to extradite Saeed, a United Nations-banned terrorist wanted by Indian investigating agencies in a number of terror cases.
Saeed, who was designated a global terrorist by the UN Security Council Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee in December 2008, is “in (the) custody of the Government of Pakistan and has been serving a 78-year prison sentence since February 12, 2020 as consequence of a conviction in seven cases of terrorist financing,” the Sanctions Committee said in an amended contribution.
Last month, the Security Council Committee adopted amendments to certain entries in the ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaeda sanctions list of individuals and entities subject to the asset freeze, travel ban and arms embargo.
In light of these changes, the Sanctions Committee also noted that Hafiz Abdul Salam Bhuttavi, founding member of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and deputy to Saeed, “has been confirmed deceased.”
Bhuttavi, a UN-designated terrorist who trained LeT attackers for the 2008 Mumbai terror attack and acted as the terror group's leader at least twice, died in prison in Pakistan's Punjab province in May last year while was serving a sentence for terrorist financing.
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