NEW YORK: The 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults mastermind Hafiz Saeed is within the custody of Pakistan and serving a 78-year imprisonment sentence, the United Nations stated in up to date data.
Because of his conviction in seven terror financing instances, Saeed has been serving his sentence since February 12, 2020.
The Safety Council Committee amended a number of names in its lists of individuals and organisations final month which might be topic to the journey ban, arms embargo, and asset freeze final month, focusing on Da’esh and ISIL.
The Date on which the narrative abstract about Hafiz Saeed grew to become accessible on the Committee’s web site was March 9, 2009, whereas it was up to date on December 19, 2023.
“Hafiz Muhammad Saeed was listed on 10 December 2008 pursuant to paragraphs 1 and a couple of of decision 1822 (2008) as being related to Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (QDe.118) and Al Qaida (QDe.004) for “collaborating within the financing, planning, facilitating, making ready or perpetrating of acts of actions by, at the side of, below the identify of, on behalf or in assist of” each entities,” the UN said as the explanation for his itemizing.
“In accordance with paragraph 13 of decision 1822 (2008) and subsequent associated resolutions, the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee makes accessible a story abstract of causes for the itemizing for people, teams, undertakings and entities included within the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Checklist,” in accordance with the UN.
Hafiz Saeed is the chief and chief of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). As an total chief, Saeed performed a key position in LeT’s operational and fundraising actions.
Earlier in December, Pakistan acquired India’s request for the extradition of 26/11 assault mastermind Hafiz Saeed, in accordance with Pakistan’s ministry of overseas affairs spokesperson, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch.
However she stated that no bilateral extradition treaty exists between India and Pakistan.
In an announcement, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch had stated, “Pakistan has acquired a request from the Indian authorities, searching for extradition of Hafiz Saeed in a so-called cash laundering case.”
Following that, the ministry of exterior affairs spokesperson stated India has conveyed a request to the Pakistan authorities relating to the extradition of Hafiz Saeed to India for dealing with trial in a specific case.
Addressing a weekly briefing, the spokesperson had stated, “The individual in query (Hafiz Saeed) is needed in quite a few instances in India. He’s additionally a UN-proscribed terrorist. On this regard, we’ve conveyed a request together with related supporting paperwork, to the federal government of Pakistan to extradite him to India to face trial in a specific case.
Notably, Saeed, who’s a UN-proscribed terrorist is the founding father of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). He was the mastermind of the lethal 26/11 assaults in Mumbai and is needed in India in quite a few instances.
Muhammad Hafiz Saeed, who has been in jail since July 17, 2019, for different prices, was sentenced in April 2022 by a particular anti-terrorism court docket in Lahore, Pakistan, to a jail time period of 33 years for “financing terrorism.”
Regardless of being designated a terrorist by the UN and EU within the 2000s, Saeed was neither charged nor extradited over practically 20 years. Saeed was designated as a terrorist by the United Nations Safety Council in December 2008.
Because of his conviction in seven terror financing instances, Saeed has been serving his sentence since February 12, 2020.
The Safety Council Committee amended a number of names in its lists of individuals and organisations final month which might be topic to the journey ban, arms embargo, and asset freeze final month, focusing on Da’esh and ISIL.
The Date on which the narrative abstract about Hafiz Saeed grew to become accessible on the Committee’s web site was March 9, 2009, whereas it was up to date on December 19, 2023.
“Hafiz Muhammad Saeed was listed on 10 December 2008 pursuant to paragraphs 1 and a couple of of decision 1822 (2008) as being related to Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (QDe.118) and Al Qaida (QDe.004) for “collaborating within the financing, planning, facilitating, making ready or perpetrating of acts of actions by, at the side of, below the identify of, on behalf or in assist of” each entities,” the UN said as the explanation for his itemizing.
“In accordance with paragraph 13 of decision 1822 (2008) and subsequent associated resolutions, the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee makes accessible a story abstract of causes for the itemizing for people, teams, undertakings and entities included within the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Checklist,” in accordance with the UN.
Hafiz Saeed is the chief and chief of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). As an total chief, Saeed performed a key position in LeT’s operational and fundraising actions.
Earlier in December, Pakistan acquired India’s request for the extradition of 26/11 assault mastermind Hafiz Saeed, in accordance with Pakistan’s ministry of overseas affairs spokesperson, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch.
However she stated that no bilateral extradition treaty exists between India and Pakistan.
In an announcement, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch had stated, “Pakistan has acquired a request from the Indian authorities, searching for extradition of Hafiz Saeed in a so-called cash laundering case.”
Following that, the ministry of exterior affairs spokesperson stated India has conveyed a request to the Pakistan authorities relating to the extradition of Hafiz Saeed to India for dealing with trial in a specific case.
Addressing a weekly briefing, the spokesperson had stated, “The individual in query (Hafiz Saeed) is needed in quite a few instances in India. He’s additionally a UN-proscribed terrorist. On this regard, we’ve conveyed a request together with related supporting paperwork, to the federal government of Pakistan to extradite him to India to face trial in a specific case.
Notably, Saeed, who’s a UN-proscribed terrorist is the founding father of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). He was the mastermind of the lethal 26/11 assaults in Mumbai and is needed in India in quite a few instances.
Muhammad Hafiz Saeed, who has been in jail since July 17, 2019, for different prices, was sentenced in April 2022 by a particular anti-terrorism court docket in Lahore, Pakistan, to a jail time period of 33 years for “financing terrorism.”
Regardless of being designated a terrorist by the UN and EU within the 2000s, Saeed was neither charged nor extradited over practically 20 years. Saeed was designated as a terrorist by the United Nations Safety Council in December 2008.
