Hafiz Saeed, 26/11 Mumbai Attack Mastermind Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison By Pakistan Court In Two Terror Cases
Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, has been sentenced to 10 years in two terror cases by a court in Pakistan, PTI reported. Hafiz Saeed is the chief of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, a front organisation for the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). This is not the first time that Hafiz Saeed was sentenced in a terror case by a Pakistani court, in February, Hafiz Saeed and some of his aides were sentenced to 11 years in a terror-financing case. Hafiz Saeed and his two aides, Zafar Iqbal & Yahya Mujahid, have been sentenced to 10-and-a-half years each. Saeed’s brother-in-law, Abdul Rehman Makki has been sentenced to six-month imprisonment. Hafiz Saeed is wanted in India for planning the 26/11 attack in Mumbai in 2008, when 10 terrorists killed 166 people and injured hundreds more. Saeed is also known as a "global terrorist" both by the United Nations and the US, which put a $10 million bounty on his head. India has for long been asking international agencies & nations to apply pressure on Pakistan to make it stop sheltering terrorists on its soil. Watch the video to know more.
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