Hafiz Saeed given ten-and-a-half-year imprisonment

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LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court here on Thursday handed ten-and-a-half-year imprisonment to Hafiz Saeed, the chief of defunct Jamaat ud Dawa (JuD) in a ‘terror funding case’.

An anti-terrorism court while hearing the terror financing case against the JuD chief and his aides Zafar Iqbal and Yahya Aziz awarded a ten-and-a-half-year imprisonment to them. The court also ordered to seize the properties of the two aides of the JuD chief while the third aide Abdur Rehman Makki was given six months imprisonment.

It is to be mentioned here that the counter terrorism department had filed the terror funding case against Hafiz Saeed and his three aides.

Earlier, an anti-terrorism court had sentenced the JuD chief to 11 years in prison in two cases.