Hafiz Saeed files petition in UN to drop terrorist tag
BRAZEN New Delhi watching 26/11 mastermind’s move closely
NEWDELHI: Lashkar-e-Taiba(LeT) founder and Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed has moved the United Nations asking that he be removed from the list of designated terrorists, senior Indian government officials said.
Saeed, the mastermind of the Mumbai attacks, was put in the list on December 10, 2008 by the United Nations Security Council. The three-day long terror strike at multiple targets in the city between November 26 and 28, 2008 claimed 166 lives.
Saeed’s petition to the UN was filed through the Lahore-based law firm that represents him, Mirza and Mirza, while he was still under house arrest.
Navid Rasul Mirza, who has served as the Prosecutor General for Pakistan in the National Accountability Bureau and as the Advocate General of Punjab from March 2015 to January 2016, confirmed that his firm had filed for Saeed’s delisting.
His son, Barrister Haider RasulMirza,whoi sS aeed’ s counsel in the UN, also confirmed the move .“I can not give details of the petition. I don’t have the permission of my client to speak on this ,” he told Hindu stan Times over the phone from Lahore.
Hindustan Times has seen operative parts of the petition, which says: “I have been engaged by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed (“the petitioner”), to submit on his behalf this de-listing request for the removal of his name from the IS IL(Da’ e sh) and Al-Qaida sanctions list being maintained by the United Nations Security Council’s ISIL (Da’esh)andAl-QaidaSanctions Committee, pursuant to the United Nations Security Council Resolutions.”