NIA court issues non-bailable warrant against Hafiz Saeed
As many as 26 people, mostly tourists, were killed by terrorists at Pahalgam in south Kashmir on April 22 last year.
As many as 26 people, mostly tourists, were killed by terrorists at Pahalgam in south Kashmir on April 22 last year.
As per the statement, the central agency has even invoked charges related to waging war against India along with criminal conspiracy allegedly hatched from across the border.
BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya called Yasin Malik’s affidavit “shocking,” after the jailed JKLF leader claimed that late ex-PM Manmohan Singh had thanked him for meeting Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed in 2006. The claim, made in the Delhi High Court, raises fresh questions over the UPA’s handling of national security.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday warned Pakistan that Operation Sindhoor was just a pause and if Pakistan repeated its mistake, it would not get even a chance to recover.
Referring to India's recent move to suspend the water-sharing treaty following a deadly terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam, Pakistani military spokesperson Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said, "If you block our water, we will choke your breath."
The Lahore anti-terrorism court has sentenced the man to imprisonment for five-and-a-half years and a fine of Rs 15,000 in each of the two cases.
“We have seen media reports that a court in Pakistan has sentenced UN-designated and internationally proscribed terrorist Hafiz Saeed in terror financing case. It is part of a long-pending international obligation of Pakistan to put an end to support for terrorism,” sources in the government said.
The anti-terror financing body-FATF had, in October last year, warned Pakistan of strong action if it fails to take measures on terror financing and money laundering by February 2020.
In July last, the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Punjab Police had registered 23 FIRs against Saeed and his 12 accomplices on charges of 'terror financing' in different cities of Punjab province and arrested the JuD chief.
The two countries also asked Pakistan to take concerted action against all terrorist networks, including al-Qaeda, ISIS, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, Haqqani Network, Hizb-ul Mujahideen, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and D-Company of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
