Hafiz Saeed serving 78-year imprisonment in Pakistan: UN

The 26/11 mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba founder, Hafiz Saeed, is in the custody of the Pakistan government and serving a 78-year sentence following his conviction in terror financing cases, the UN has stated.

Saeed is in the "custody of the government of Pakistan serving a 78-year imprisonment sentence since 12 February, 2020, as a result of a conviction in seven terror financing cases," the UN Sanctions Committee said in an amended entry.

Saeed was designated as a global terrorist by the UN Security Council's Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee in December 2008. Saeed's address is listed as House No. 116E, Mohalla Johar, Lahore, Tehsil, Lahore City, Lahore District, Pakistan "as of" May 2008.


In December, India asked Pakistan to extradite Saeed.

Last month, the Security Council 1267 Committee enacted a few amendments to certain entries on its ISIL (Daesh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities, subject to asset freeze, travel ban and arms embargo. Saeed is among those whose information has been amended and the updated details have been made available through a press release.

The Sanctions Committee also noted that Hafiz Abdul Salam Bhuttavi, founding member of Lashkar-e-Taiba and deputy to Saeed, is "confirmed deceased".

Bhuttavi, a UNSC-designated terrorist who trained the Lashkar-e-Taiba attackers for the 2008 Mumbai terror attack and acted as the outfit's chief on at least two occasions, died in a prison in May last year in Pakistan's Punjab province while serving a sentence for terror financing.

The Sanctions Committee noted that Maulana Fazlullah, commander of Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), was "confirmed deceased on 13 June 2018". TTP commander since November 2013, Fazlullah led the local TTP in Pakistan's northwest valley of Swat from 2007 to 2009.

Pakistani national Noor Wali Mehsud is leader of Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan "following the death of former TTP leader Maulana Fazlullah", an amended entry on Mehsud said. His address is listed as Paktika Province in Afghanistan as of November 26, 2022.

As per the information, Al Rashid Trust, whose headquarters was in Pakistan, is "defunct". It was associated with Jaish-e-Mohammed.