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Lahore ATC to announce verdicts on six cases against Hafiz Saeed, others by end of week
[DAWN] A Lahore anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday accepted a plea seeking the simultaneous hearing and verdict of six cases against the chief of the proscribed organization Jamaat-ud-Dawa...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD), Hafiz Saeed  ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go...., and his associates. Deputy Prosecutor General Abdul Rauf Wattoo told DawnNewsTV that in total six cases against the said individuals were pending before the same court, adding that in four of these cases presentation of evidence was in progress. Wattoo said hearing of all four remaining cases will be concluded simultaneously at the end of the week, which is when the court will issue its verdicts. The court has already reserved its verdicts in two of the cases. The reserved verdicts, which relate to terror financing cases, will also be announced with those on other cases at the end of the week, he added. On Saturday, the ATC had delayed announcing its verdict in the terror financing cases and had decided to hear arguments on February 11 (today) on the defendants' application to hear all cases first before announcing the verdict. The application, filed by the suspects' counsel, demands that collective verdicts be issued after the completion of trials in all the cases pending against them. Related: Hafiz Saeed: 2020-01-31 Deadly gunfight between police and rebels in Kashmir Hafiz Saeed: 2020-01-10 ATC summons Hafiz Saeed for closing statements in two terror financing cases Hafiz Saeed: 2020-01-05 LeT terrorist arrested in Srinagar Related: Jamaatud Dawa: 2019-10-01 LHC allows Hafiz Saeed's case to be shifted from Gujranwala to Lahore Jamaatud Dawa: 2017-11-03 Haqqani network on top as US shares list of 20 terror groups with Pakistan Jamaatud Dawa: 2016-05-03 Unknown assailants attack JuD madrassah, leave 15 injured Related: Abdul Rauf Wattoo: 2019-12-11 Suspect indicted in Chunian rape, murder case Abdul Rauf Wattoo: 2019-11-29 Data Darbar bombing facilitator sentenced to death by Lahore ATC Posted by: Fred 2020-02-12 |
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