Where is 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed?

By- Shivanshi Srivastava

Saeed, 73, is desiganted as global terrorist by UN Security Council's Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee in December 2008.

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Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed is serving a 78-year imprisonment sentence in Pakistan Governmet custody.

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He is in the "custody" of the Government of Pakistan since 12 February 2020.

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India asked Pakistan to extradite Saeed.

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The 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind is wanted by Indian probe agencies in several cases.

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Hafiz Abdul Salam Bhuttavi, founding member of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and deputy to Saeed is "confirmed deceased.”

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He died in a prison in May last year in Pakistan's Punjab province while serving a sentence.

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Saeed traces his origins to a Gujjar family from Haryana who travelled to Pakistan’s Punjab during partition.

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Saeed's brothers ran Islamic centres in Boston but were deported back to Pakistan for visa violations by U.S. government in 2007.

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