Hafiz Saeed among 13 JuD leaders booked for terror financing

Counter-Terrorism Department booked top 13 leaders of the banned Jamaatud Dawa for terror financing and money laundering.
Most importantly, JuD chief Hafiz Saeed and deputy chief Abdul Rehman Makki, others also named in nearly two dozen cases under the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.

The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), has registered these cases in five cities of Punjab.

The CTD declared that the JuD was financing terrorism from the massive funds it collected through non-profit organisations and trusts.

It named Al-Anfaal Trust, Dawatul Irshad Trust, Muaz Bin Jabal Trust, etc as the source of terror financing.

Notably, the government had banned these non-profit organisations in April because the CTD found their links with the JuD.

During detailed investigations, CTD also found their links with JuD top leadership. Charges had it the accused terror financing through building huge assets/properties from the collected funds in Pakistan.

Finally, CTD registered 23 FIRs at police stations of Lahore, Gujranwala, Multan, Faisalabad and Sargodha on July 1 and 2.

Those others named in the cases included: Malik Zafar Iqbal, Ameer Hamza, Mohammad Yahya Aziz, Mohammad Naeem, Mohsin Bilal, Abdul Raqeeb, Dr Ahmad Daud, Dr Muhammad Ayub, Abdullah Ubaid, Mohammad Ali and Abdul Ghaffar.

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