10 years jail sentence awarded for collecting funds for Taliban terrorists

An antiterrorism court has sentenced a convict to 10 years in jail for collecting funds for Taliban militants and their wings fighting security agencies in Mohmand Agency. Ismail Khan was charged with collecting funds for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan faction.

The ATC-X judge, who conducted trial in judicial complex inside the Central Jail Karachi, pronounced his verdict after recording evidence and final arguments from both sides.
The judge observed that the prosecution proved its charges against the detained accused beyond a shadow of a doubt and convicted him under Section 11-F(6) and 11-W(2) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.
The judge awarded him a sentence of five-years rigorous imprisonment in each section with a fine of Rs100,000. On default, Khan was ordered to undergo additional six-month rigorous imprisonment. Both sentences will run concurrently.
The Counter-Terrorism Department officials, on a tip-off about presence of a man belonging to proscribed outfit Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, arrested Hazrat Khan at the Numaish Chowrangi on January 31.
During his search, the officials recovered two receipt books printed with ‘Chanda Barae Mujahideen Lawahiqeen Aal Saafi Mohmand Welfare Association, Karachi, Sindh’, from him.
According to the prosecution, the detained man disclosed during interrogation that he had been collecting alms with the connivance of his accomplice Aurangzeb Mohmand and collected Rs8,600 each from 18 persons.
He further disclosed that his other accomplice had left for Mohmand Agency along with the collected alms for providing aid to the TTP’s Qari Shakeel Group. He was booked under the Section 11-F(6) and 11-W(2) read with the Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.