An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Wednesday sentenced four people to death for their role in a powerful car bomb blast outside the home of Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed in June last year, a court official said. According to. Anti-terrorism court judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta sentenced a woman named Ayesha Bibi to five years in prison during an in-camera hearing at the high-security Kot Lakhpat jail here.
On June 23, 2021, an explosion outside Saeed’s Jauhar town residence killed three people and injured over 20 others, causing damage to several houses, shops and vehicles in the area. Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Lahore awarded death sentence to banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Peter Paul David, Sajjad Shah and Ziaullah’s Eid Gul in nine cases. Another suspect, Ayesha Bibi, was sentenced to five years in jail. “The prosecution produced 56 witnesses against the suspects who had denied their role in the blast,” the court official told PTI, adding that the Anti-Terrorism Department (CTD) has given these five Challans were presented against the suspects.According to the CTD, Id Gul had planted explosives in the car used in the blast.
The car belonged to Peter Paul David and the other three – Sajjad Shah, Ziaullah and Ayesha – were the facilitators. The Punjab government has claimed to have traced the network of all the 10 Pakistani suspects involved in the blast. However, only five of them were charged in the case. Banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Saeed is serving a prison term at Kot Lakhpat Jail Lahore for his sentence in terror financing cases. There were unconfirmed reports that Saeed was present at his house at the time of the blast.
The 71-year-old radical cleric and UN-designated terrorist, on whom the US has placed a USD 10 million bounty, has been sentenced to 36 years in prison on five counts of financing terrorism. His sentence is running concurrently. Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawa is the lead organization for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which is responsible for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people, including six Americans.
The US Treasury Department has designated Saeed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. He was listed under United Nations Security Council resolution 1267 in December 2008. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global terror financing watchdog, has been instrumental in motivating Pakistan to act against terrorists freely roaming the country and carrying out attacks using its territory. India.
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