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A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has adjourned the hearing of the terror financing case against Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed and three of his top aides till January 2 due to lawyers’ strike.
In a report by PTI, the anti-terrorism court (ATC) Lahore indicted Saeed and his close aides – Hafiz Abdul Salam, Muhammad Ashraf and Zafar Iqbal on terror financing charges on December 11.
“Hafiz Saeed and his three close aides were produced before the Anti-Terrorism Court Lahore in terror financing case in high security here on Tuesday. However, prosecution did not produce any witnesses against them,” a court official told PTI after the hearing.
He said the ATC adjourned the day-to-day hearing of the case till January 2 on the request of the prosecution lawyer. The prosecution told the court that since there has been a strike of lawyers in the lower courts, the hearing should be adjourned till next month.
The court accepted the prosecution’s request. The lawyers have been protesting against the arrest of their colleagues in the hooliganism at a Lahore hospital. In the previous hearing last week, the prosecution produced a witness who testified against Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Saeed before the ATC. Saeed was also indicted in another case of terror financing.
