The decision came just one day before the crucial meeting of terror watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
India has raised concerns over the timing of Hafiz Saeed's conviction by a court in Pakistan on Wednesday, as the decision came just one day before the crucial meeting of terror watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
According to government sources, Saeed's conviction is a part of a long-pending international obligation of Islamabad to put an end to support for terrorism. They, however, added that the international community should take a note of the fact that it came just one day before the FATF plenary meeting.
The sources also informed that India will keep a close watch on the efficacy of the decision and see if Pakistan will act against other terrorist entities that are operating from its soil.
The UN designated and internationally proscribed terrorist, Hafiz Saeed, was convicted by a Pakistani court on Wednesday in two separate terror-financing cases and awarded him five and half years imprisonment in each case.
Saeed is a UN-designated terrorist with a US $10 million bounty on his head placed by the United States.
The Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief was charged in December last year by an anti-terrorism court in Lahore in a terror funding case. The terror mastermind was indicted in the financing through five shell organisations.
Saeed was arrested on July 17 in the terror financing cases and has been lodged at the Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail in high security.
A court official confirmed that Saeed was sentenced in two terror financing cases registered against him in Lahore and Gujranwala cities on the application of the CTD of Punjab police.
The court sentenced Saeed to five and a half years and imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 in each case.
Saeed-led JuD is the front organisation for the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) which is responsible for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, including six Americans.
The US Department of the Treasury has designated Saeed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, and the US, since 2012, has offered a USD 10 million reward for information that brings Saeed to justice. He was listed under the UN Security Council Resolution 1267 in December 2008.
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