JOIN USIndia proscribes 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed's son as a terrorist
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief Hafiz Sayeed's son Hafiz Talha Saeed has become the 32nd person to be designated a "terrorist" under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.
The Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday late night issued a notification, including 47-year-old Talha Saeed's name on the list. Talha Saeed heads the cleric wing of the LeT.
It said Talha Saeed has been "actively involved in recruitment, fund collection, planning and executing attacks by LeT in India and Indian interests in Afghanistan."
He has been "actively visiting various LeT centres across Pakistan and during his sermons propagating for jihad against India, Israel, the United States and Indian interests in other western countries," the notification said.
"The Central Government believes that Hafiz Talha Saeed is involved in terrorism and Hafiz Talha Saeed should be notified as a terrorist under the said (UAPA) Act," it added.
These 32 people are designated terrorists, added in the fourth schedule of the amended UAPA.
On October 27, 2020, the Centre had designated 18 people, Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahudeen, Indian Mujahideen founders Bhatkal brothers—Riyaz and Iqbal—and Dawood aide Chotta Shakeel as 'terrorists'.
In September 2019, four people, including Hafiz Sayeed and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, and in July 2020, nine Sikhs involved in the Khalistan movement were declared terrorists.
The list also includes two hijackers—Ibrahim Athar and Yusuf Azhar—of an Indian Airlines plane in 1999 and Ibrahim Memon, who is based in Pakistan and wanted in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case. Athar is also a key conspirator in the 2001 Parliament attack case.
Hafiz Sayeed's brother-in-law Abdur Rehman Makki, who heads the outfit's political affairs department and served as the head of LeT's foreign relations department, Sajid Mir, a Pakistan-based LeT commander and one of the main planners of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, and Yusuf Muzammil, accused in 26/11 as well as LeT frontal organisation Falah-i-lnsaniyat Foundation Deputy Chief Shahid Mehmood also figure in the list.
Abdul Rauf Asghar, involved in the setting up of training camps in Pakistan for recruitment and militant training and key conspirator in the Parliament attack case, and Shahid Latif, Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed Commander of Sialkot sector who is involved in launching of JeM terrorists into India, are also named among the 18.
Besides Salahudeen, the Supreme Commander of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen and Chairman of United Jihad Council (UJC) Involved in fundraising and routing finances to India for furtherance of terrorist activities, the outfit's Deputy Supreme Commander Ghulam Nabi Khan and Deputy Chief Zaffar Hussain Bhat also figure in the list. Bhat is the Pakistan-based Deputy Chief of the Hizb and handles financial affairs and responsible for sending funds for its operatives in the Kashmir Valley.
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