Islamabad: Pakistan has restore the bank accounts of 26/11 Mumbai attack terrorist.
Hafiz Saeed- Led JuD is the front organisation for the Lashakar-e-taiba .
Lashakar-e-taiba in 2008 attacked Mumbai and killed 166 people including six Americans.
Hafiz is UN designated terrorist, whom the US has placed USD 10 million bounty on him. He was arrested on July 17 last year in the terror financing case. As per report- An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Tuesday indicted four top leaders of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) and close aides of the 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed in a terror financing case. He was listed as a terrorist under the UN Security Council Resolution 1267 in December 2008 . In February he was sentenced to 11 years in jail by anti terrorism.
Four other terrorist bank account is also restored. Abdul Salam, Haji M Ashraf, Yahya Mujahid and Zafar Iqbal – were the other member of the Lashakar-e-taiba.
Now on Sunday Pakistan has restore their bank accounts.
While their bank accounts were frozen by Pakistani government with UNSC resolution.
Meanwhile they are presently facing sentence ranging 1 to 5 years in Lahore jail for terror financing case filed against them by Punjab counter-terrorist department (CTD).
“The restoration of bank accounts has taken place following formal approval of the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council,” the paper said.
