Hafiz Saeed gets breather in terror financing trial after authorities fail to produce co-accused; next hearing on 11 Dec
FirstpostCounter-Terrorism Department of Punjab Police had registered 23 FIRs against Saeed and his accomplices on charges of ’terror financing’ and arrested JuD chief on 17 July Lahore: Mumbai terror attack mastermind and chief of the banned JuD Hafiz Saeed could not be indicted by Lahore’s anti-terrorism court for terror financing charges as authorities strangely failed to produce one of the co-accused at the high profile hearing on Saturday. “Case against Hafiz Saeed and others under the FIR 30/19 Counter-Terrorism Department of Punjab police was fixed for framing of charges in connection with terror financing before the Anti-Terrorism Court-1 Lahore but strangely co-accused Malik Zafar Iqbal was not produced from jail. The Counter-Terrorism Department of the Punjab Police had registered 23 FIRs against Saeed and his accomplices on the charges of “terror financing” in different cities of Punjab province and arrested the Jammat-ud-Dawah chief on 17 July. On 3 July, the top 13 leaders of the banned JuD, including Saeed and Naib Emir Abdul Rehman Makki, were booked in nearly two dozen cases for terror financing and money laundering under the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.