report in Dawn, Dec 4, 2020
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Thursday convicted four leaders of Jamatud Dawa (JuD) in two more cases of terror financing.
Announcing the verdict in FIRs 27 & 40 of 2019, Presiding Judge Ijaz Ahmad Buttar handed down 15-year-and-a-half-month imprisonment to Abdul Salam bin Muhammad, Zafar Iqbal and Muhammad Ashraf each while six-month term to Abdul Rehman Makki in each case.
Several leaders of the JuD including its chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed had been under detention since July 2019. They had been convicted in various FIRs registered by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on the charges of terror financing while trial proceedings in several others were still pending.
The CTD had registered as many as 41 FIRs against the leaders of the JuD in different cities. The trial courts have so far decided 27 cases.
