Pakistani court finds Hafiz Saeed guilty on two more charges of terrorism financing

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By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – A Pakistani court sentenced Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed, founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the militant group blamed by the United States and India for the 2008 Mumbai siege, to 31 years in prison in two cases of terrorism financing, court documents showed on Friday. He was found guilty of multiple breaches in the two cases, but it was not immediately clear how much jail time it would entail given his current incarceration and the sentences’ running concurrently. “The sentences awarded to convict Hafiz Muhammad Saeed run concurrently of this cas…

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