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Hafiz Muhammad Saeed (Urdu: حافظ محمد سعید, born 5 June 1950) [4] is a Pakistani Islamic preacher and a militant convicted of terrorism. [5] [6] He co-founded Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), [7] [8] [9] a Pakistan-based Islamist militant organization that is designated as a terrorist group by the United Nations Security Council, [10] [11] India, [12] the United States, [13] the United ...
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed – founder of LeT and aamir of its political arm, JuD. [81] Shortly after the 2008 Mumbai attacks Saeed denied any links between the two groups: "No Lashkar-e-Taiba man is in Jamaat-ud-Dawa and I have never been a chief of Lashkar-e-Taiba." On 25 June 2014, the United States declared JuD an affiliate of LeT.
Hafiz Saeed announced in December, a few days after his release from house arrest on 24 November, that his organization would contest the 2018 elections. [10] Since its registration was rejected, it fielded its candidates under another party, the Allah-o-Akbar Tehreek. [11] However, the party failed to win any seats. [12]
The United States has added a key anti-Pakistani militant group and its al-Qaida branch to its list of “global terrorists,” triggering sanctions against the groups amid a resurgence of ...
Tehreek-e-Azaadi Jammu and Kashmir (तहरीक-ए-आज़ादी जम्मू और कश्मीर), abbreviated as TAJK, is a terrorist front organisation, run by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. [1] [2] [3] By Indian government, It is claimed to be a front for Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD).
A Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designation bans Americans—or anyone who wants to immigrate to the United States—from providing any kind of "material support" to a designated terrorist ...
FBI photo of 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, identified as the deceased suspect of the New Orleans terrorist attack on New Year’s Day that killed 15 and injured dozens more. Jabbar said he was ...
A significant development came on 14 July 2012 as Hafiz Saeed Khan, a prominent TTP leader, agreed to rapidly assemble a group of 143 Afghan and Pakistani volunteer fighters for al-Qaeda to dispatch to join the al-Nusra Front in Syria.