India Requests Extradition of Hafiz Saeed, Pakistan Cites Lack of Bilateral Treaty
Saeed, founder of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba and wanted in India for numerous cases, remains unextradited despite international terrorist designation.
- Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack and founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit, is wanted by India for trial in numerous cases.
- India has formally requested Pakistan for Saeed's extradition, but Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that no bilateral extradition treaty exists between the two countries.
- Saeed, who has been in jail since July 2019, was sentenced in April 2022 by a special anti-terrorism court in Lahore, Pakistan, to a jail term of 33 years for 'financing terrorism'.
- Despite being designated a terrorist by the UN and EU in the 2000s, Saeed was neither charged nor extradited over nearly two decades.
- The Pakistan Markazi Muslim League (PMML), a political entity of Hafiz Saeed, has fielded candidates for each national and provincial assembly constituency across Pakistan for the upcoming general elections in February 2024.
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