Pak court upholds objection on Hafiz Saeed's petition challenging arrest in terror financing cases

A Pakistani court on Friday upheld an objection on the petition of Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed challenging his arrest in the terror financing cases.

The Lahore High Court registrar office raised objection over the pictures of mosques attached with the petition, filed by Saeed and 67 others, to establish that they had been constructed on places being portrayed for the use of alleged terrorist activities.

The Registrar office contended that the petitioners attached the pictures of the mosques to give an impression that the structures are built on "land occupied by them illegally" to make it a "religious issue".

A two-member bench of the Lahore High Court headed by Justice Mazahir Ali Naqvi
The anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Gujrat, some 200-km from Lahore, will take up the case for hearing on September 2
Saeed and others prayed to the LHC to declare that the property detailed in the petition was "dedicated for the purpose of mosques and is being used as such, therefore, the FIRs are without lawful authority and of no legal effect."