Pakistani court jails Islamist Hafiz Saeed for an extra 31 years

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LAHORE - A Pakistani court has jailed Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed, founder of the militant group blamed by the United States and India for, for 31 years in connection with terrorism financing, court

documents showed.

"The sentences awarded to convict Hafiz Muhammad Saeed run concurrently of this case and of previously awarded, if any," a the court said in an order, dated April 7, that was seen by Reuters on Friday .Saeed has been arrested and released several times over the past decade. He denies any involvement with militancy, including the 2008 Mumbai attacks in which gunmen who slipped into Mumbai by boat from Pakistan killed 160 people, including Americans.

India said Talha Saeed, a cleric living in the Pakistani city of Lahore, had been actively involved in recruitment, funding, planning and execution of attacks in India and on Indian interests in Afghanistan.

 

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