Pakistan Stonewalls Hafiz Sayeed’s Extradition Request by India, Says He is Serving 78-Yr Jail Sentence

Showing no interest in the handover of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) leader Hafiz Saeed to India, Pakistan claimed that he was serving a 78-year jail sentence.

Hafiz Saeed is the prime accused in the 2008 Mumbai attacks case. Pakistan submitted its response regarding Hafiz Saeed to the UNSC’s 1267 Sanctions Committee. It was claimed that Saeed is in the “custody of the Government of Pakistan serving a 78-year imprisonment sentence since February 12, 2020, as a result of conviction in seven terror financing cases”. This was stated in a press release on the UN website.

Saeed (73) was designated as a global terrorist by the UN Security Council’s Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee in December 2008.

The committee also said Hafiz Abdul Salam Bhuttavi, a founding member of the LeT and deputy to Saeed, a UNSC-designated terrorist who had trained the LeT attackers for the 2008 Mumbai terror attack has died. He died in a jail in Pakistan’s Punjab province in May 2023.