26/11 attacks: Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi sentenced to 15-yr jail term for terror-financing

Anti-Terrorism Court in Pakistan's Lahore sentenced Zakiur-ur-Rehman Lakhvi to 15 years in jail in a terror funding case connected to 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai on Friday. Lakhvi was arrested by Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab province on January 2 on terror financing charges. 61-year-old LeT commander, who was out on bail since 2015, is accused of running a dispensary, using funds collected for terrorism financing.

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Lakhvi sentenced to 15 years jail term

"Lakhvi is accused of running a dispensary, using funds collected for terrorism financing. He and ors also collected funds from this dispensary and used se funds for furr terrorism financing. He also used se funds for personal expenses,” CTD said.

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Hafiz Saeed sentenced to 10 years

Meanwhile, 26/11 mastermind and Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief -  Hafiz Saeed has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan in two more terror financing cases. According to ANI, Counter-Terrorism Department officials are treating Hafiz Saeed as a VIP and he is still roaming in his SUV escorted by his aides. UN-designated terrorist was arrested on July 17 last year in terror financing cases and is lodged at Lahore's high-security Kot Lakhpat jail. Saeed and his two close aides - Zafar Iqbal and Yahya Mujahid - have been sentenced to 10 and a half years each, while JuD chief’s bror-in-law Abdul Rehman Makki was sentenced to six months imprisonment.

Saeed's JuD is front organisation for Lashkar-e-Taiba which is responsible for carrying out 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, including six Americans. Twelve years ago, on night of vember 26, 2008, 10 heavily armed terrorists from Pakistan entered Mumbai via sea route and went on a ramp. 26/11 attack witnessed 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists going on a killing spree in buzzing city during peak hours at landmark locations like - Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Oberoi Trident, Taj Mahal, Palace and Tower, Leopold Cafe, Cama Hospital, Nariman House Jewish Community centre. Ajmal Amir Kasab, only terrorist to be captured alive, was hung four years later on vember 21, 2012 while Saeed, an UN-designated terrorist also has a 10 million USD bounty placed on him by American government in 2012. 

Pakistan's anti-terror court sentences JuD chief Hafiz Saeed to 10 years in jail in two more cases