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Pakistan court indicts Hafiz Saeed on terror financing charges
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- An anti-terrorism court (ATC) indicted Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed on terror financing charges on Wednesday in Lahore.
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- FIR against Saeed:
(1) FIR against Saeed and other JuD leaders Abdul Ghaffar, Hafiz Masood, Ameer Hamza and Malik Zafar Iqbal was registered in July on charges of terror financing.
(2) The case against Saeed and the others was registered by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) in Gujranwala.
- Master of 26/11 attacks: Saeed is the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that killed 166 people.
- Bounty declared by US: He also has a bounty on his head worth $10 million by the U.S. government.
Source
The Hindu