Jamaat-ul-Dawa Spokesperson Sentenced To 32 Years
Jamaat-ul-Dawa Spokesperson Sentenced To 32 Years Imprisonment. Pakistani court orders a 32-year sentence to the spokesperson of terrorist leader Hafiz Saeed.
The spokesperson of Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the Mumbai blasts and head of Jamaat-ul-Dawa, has been sentenced to 32 years by the Pakistan Anti-Terrorism Court.
The name of the spokesperson is Yaha Mujahid. This punishment has come in the Terror Funding case. The court has also sentenced two other people associated with Jamaat-ud-Dawa in this case.
It also includes Hafiz’s nephew Professor Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki. It has been sentenced to one year. Strict security arrangements were made during the court appearance.
The media was not allowed inside. Hafiz Saeed has been dealt a big blow by this decision of the court.
ATC Judge Ejaz Ahmed Buttar sentenced JUD spokesperson Yahya Mujahid to 32 years in prison in two FIRs.
Professor Zafar Iqbal and Prof Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki (Saeed’s brother-in-law) were sentenced to 16 and one-year jail terms each in two cases.
He said charges have been framed against two more people associated with the JUD in the terrorist financing case against Abdul Salam bin Muhammad and Lukman Shah.
The court directed the prosecution to produce its witnesses on 16 November. The suspects were produced in high security in the court and the media was not allowed to enter the court premises during the proceedings of the case.
Last week, ATC Lahore convicted the JUD’s Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki, Zafar Iqbal, and Muhammad Ashraf in two more cases of terror funding recorded by the Punjab Police’s Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD).
Both have been sentenced to 16 years of collective imprisonment under various sections of the Anti-Terrorism Act. Makki has been sentenced to one year in prison for a fine of Rs 1,70,000.
Non-bailable warrant against Maulvi for the forcible marriage of a minor Christian girl in Pakistan
A Pakistani court has issued a non-bailable warrant against a cleric on charges of forcibly converting a minor Christian girl to Islam.
He has been declared a fugitive after a report was written against Qazi Mufti Ahmad Jan Rahim by the victim girl on 16 October. This cleric is also accused in another case of conversion and forcing the marriage of another girl.
Therefore, a magistrate court in Karachi has issued a non-bailable warrant against this cleric.
The Christian girl who lodged the case alleged that she was forcibly converted to Islam and her marriage to a man named Muhammad Imran