Pakistan restores bank accounts of Hafiz Saeed, his four top aides: Report

TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/ Pakistan has restored the bank accounts of the outlawed Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief and the 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed and his four top aides, a media report said on Sunday. Saeed, a UN designated terrorist whom the US has placed a USD 10 million bounty on, was arrested on July 17 last year in the terror financing cases.

He was sentenced to 11 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court in February this year in two terror financing cases. He is lodged at the Lahore’s high-security Kot Lakhpat jail. Abdul Salam Bhuttavi, Haji M Ashraf, Yahya Mujahid and Zafar Iqbal – all on the UN Security Council’s terrorists list – were the other members of the JuD and Lashkar-e-Taiba who got their bank accounts restored.

They are currently facing sentences ranging 1 to 5 years in Lahore jail for terror financing cases filed against them by the Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD). “The restoration of bank accounts has taken place following formal approval of the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council,”. Citing sources said that the JuD leaders had appealed United Nations for restoring their bank accounts that they could run their family affairs.