Chief of the outlawed Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) Hafiz Saeed and two others were sentenced to prison for five years and six months each in two cases by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore. A fine of Rs. 15,000 is also imposed on Saeed, who was arrested by Punjab’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) in July last year.
A Karachi anti-terrorism court sentenced journalist Nasarullah Chaudhry to five years in prison for possessing “material against Pakistan” and “spreading religious hatred”. He has been sentenced to jail under Section 11 W(a) of the ATA. Nasarullah, who was working for Nai Baat, has been convicted of possessing literature about Jihad and books which were critical of the “Pakistan army and the government”.