Hafiz Saeed files petition in UN seeking removal of his name from terror list

Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed has filed a petition in the UN seeking removal of his name from the list of designated terrorists on the ground that none of the allegations against him either related to terrorism or otherwise has been proved in the Pakistani courts.

The banned Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) head, who carries a USD 10 million American bounty on his head for terror activities, walked free on Friday after the Pakistan government decided against detaining him further in any other case. He was under house arrest since January this year.

Lahore-based law firm - Mirza and Mirza Law Associates has filed the petition on behalf of Saeed in the UN.

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Navid Rasul Mirza, the owner of this law firm, told PTI today that his law firm had recently filed the petition in the UN.

"My law firm has filed the petition on Hafiz Saeed's behalf at the UN seeking removal of his name from its list of designated terrorists. My son Haider Rasul who is director of this firm is looking after this case," he said.

Saeed, who is accused of having masterminded the November 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, was placed on the terrorism black list by the United Nations under UN Security Council Resolution 1267 in December 2008.

To a question about any progress in the case so far, Mirza said: "We have just filed the petition."