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Abdullah Muhammad Saeed	Abdullah Muhammad Saeed	al-Qaeda	Home Front				20030218
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed	Hafiz Muhammad Saeed	Jamaat-ud-Dawat	India-Pakistan				20020727
	Hafiz Muhammad Saeed	Jamaat al-Dawa	Afghanistan/South Asia			Supremo	20011226
	Hafiz Muhammad Saeed	Markaz Dawah Wal Arshad	India-Pakistan				20020801
	Hafiz Muhammad Saeed	Lashkar-e-Taiba	India-Pakistan	Pakistani	At Large		20011224
	Hafiz Muhammad Saeed	Jamaat ud-Daawa	India-Pakistan				20060218	Link
	Hafiz Muhammad Saeed	Markaz al-Dawa wal-Irshad	Afghanistan/South Asia			Supremo	20011226
	Hafiz Muhammad Saeed	Markaz ad Dawa	India-Pakistan				20020613
	Hafiz Muhammad Saeed	Jamaatud Dawa	India-Pakistan	Pakistani	At Large		20060221	Link
		Founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa.
	Hafiz Muhammad Saeed	Jamaat-ud-Daawa	India-Pakistan				20030823
Muhammad Saeed Hussein	Muhammad Saeed Hussein	Ansar al-Islam	Iraq				20030404

Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Palestinians say one killed in Israeli raid on West Bank

2025-04-03

[IsraelTimes] The Palestinian Authority health ministry says that one man was killed during a raid in the West Bank by Israel’s military, which did not confirm the killing.

“The young man, Hamza Muhammad Saeed Khammash (33 years old), was shot and killed by occupation (Israeli) forces in the Old City of Nablus,” the ministry says in a statement.

Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military says “the incident is under review.”

Official Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that Israeli forces arrested three people, including Khammash’s brother during the raid.

An AFP journalist reports that hundreds of Palestinians marched through the narrow streets of Nablus’s Old City for Khammash’s funeral earlier today.

Khammash’s body was covered in a Palestinian flag and his head wrapped in a keffiyeh scarf as men carried him through the streets ahead of crying relatives including his mother.

Since the start of the Gaza war, violence has soared in the West Bank.

Israeli troops or settler attacks have killed at least 915 Palestinians in the West Bank since then, according to the PA health ministry, which does not differentiate between civilians and combatants. Israel is in the midst of a months-long counter terror campaign in the West Bank.

Palestinian attacks and clashes during military raids have killed at least 32 Israelis, including soldiers, over the same period, according to official figures.

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India-Pakistan

India requests Pakistan to extradite Hafiz Saeed in 'so-called money laundering case'

2023-12-30

[GEO.TV] India has requested Pakistain to extradite Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the chief of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
(JuD), the Foreign Office confirmed Friday.

"Pakistain has received a request from the Indian authorities, seeking extradition of Hafiz Saeed

...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go....
in a so-called money laundering case," Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said in a statement.

However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
there might be no plans to follow up on India’s request, as according to the spokesperson, "no bilateral extradition treaty exists between Pakistain and India".

India blames Saeed for being involved in attacks across the borders, however, the chief of the banned outfit has denied all claims.

A Pak court had sentenced Hafiz Saeed, founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
(LeT), the gang blamed by the United States and India for the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege, to 31 years in prison in two cases of terrorism financing.

An anti-terrorism court in Lahore had found Saeed guilty of terrorism financing in April 2022 and sentenced him to 32 years in jail.

Hours before Zahra’s confirmation, India had also confirmed it had formally requested Pakistain to extradite Saeed, according to India's foreign ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi.

"We have conveyed a request along with relevant supporting documents to the Government of Pakistain," Bagchi told news hounds in a media briefing.

Saeed conviction in 2022 was not the only one. Arrested in 2019, he was already serving a 15-year sentence after being found guilty of terror financing in 2020.

Saeed, who was put behind bars many times before over the past decade, denies being involved with armed operations, including the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, which killed 166 people.

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India-Pakistan

Pak Purge: Islamabad court summons Imran Khan in 'un-Islamic nikah' case

2023-09-22

[GEO.TV] A district and sessions court in Islamabad issued a summon of Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
(PTI) Chairman Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders...
for September 25 in an "unIslamic nikah" case with his third wife Bushra Bibi.

Civil judge Qudratullah has asked the court staff to issue the summon to present the PTI chief in court to the Attock jail superintendent.

The former prime minister was arrested from his Zaman Park residence in Lahore on August 5 after being convicted in the Toshakhana case with accusations of misusing his 2018 to 2022 premiership to buy and sell gifts in state possession that were received during visits abroad and worth more than Rs140 million ($635,000).

Since his arrest, he was shifted to the Attock jail.

While the Islamabad High Court (IHC) had overturned a lower court's decision to jail him, he remains behind bars due to his arrest in the cipher case.

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officially arrested the ousted premier — who was removed from power via a parliamentary vote in April last year — and Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi
Mehmood <q>Wormtongue</q> Qureshi

...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached...
in the cipher case last month after booking them under the Official Secrets Act.

Qureshi was taken into custody from his residence in Islamabad in the same case on August 19 while Khan was arrested in the cipher case while he was serving the sentence in Attock jail.

IMRAN-BUSHRA MARRIAGE CASE
In May of this year, a district and sessions court in Islamabad rejected the plea challenging the nikah (marriage) of Imran Khan with Bushra Bibi.

The application, according to the court, was "inadmissible" and fell outside its jurisdiction but, in July another Islamabad court dismissed the civil court's verdict.

Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) Islamabad Muhammad Azam Khan, back then, had remanded the case to a civil judge.

The petitioner, Muhammad Hanif, had claimed that Bushra Bibi was divorced by her former husband in November 2017 and married Khan on January 1, 2018, despite the fact that her Iddat period had not ended, "which is against the Sharia and Moslem norms."

The complainant submitted in the court the statements of Mufti Muhammad Saeed — who conducted the marriage between Imran and Bushra, and Awn Chaudhry — Imran's close friend — one of the witnesses at the wedding.

Saeed, who solemnised the couple's Nikah, had said that the PTI chief married Bushra Bibi during the latter's iddat (the time a woman goes into isolation after her husband dies or divorces her), despite knowing everything.

In his statement to a lower court, Saeed said he had solemnised Khan's Nikah with Bushra Bibi on January 1, 2018, over the assurance of a woman claiming to be the former first lady's sister.

"Then the former premier contacted me again in February 2018 and requested me to solemnise his Nikah with Bushra Bibi again as the first time it was against the Shariah," Saeed stated before the court.

He said that the first time when the Nikah was solemnised, Bushra Bibi's Iddat hadn't ended.

He quoted Khan as saying that Bushra Bibi had been divorced on November 2017 and that there was a "prediction" that the PTI chairman would become the prime minister of Pakistain if he married Bushra Bibi.

Mufti Saeed added that the first Nikah was illegal, which had been solemnised based on the "prediction".

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India-Pakistan

Pakistan court sentences man to death for blasphemy

2023-03-26

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An anti-terrorism court in northwest Pakistain has convicted and sentenced a Moslem man to death after he was accused of posting blasphemous content in a WhatsApp group.

Blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in Moslem-majority Pakistain, where even unproven allegations can stir mobs and violence.

Syed Muhammad Zeeshan was convicted under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act and Anti-Terrorist Act by the court in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
on Friday.
Since the blasphemer is a Syed, I'm guessing he's a Shiite.
"Accused Syed Muhammad Zeeshan, son of Syed Zakaullah in jug has been convicted and sentenced after being found guilty," the court order said, a copy of which was obtained by AFP.

Zeeshan, who is a resident of the northwest city of Mardan, was also fined 1.2 million rupees ($4,300) and handed a total of 23 years imprisonment.

He has the right to appeal.
Good luck widdat.
The case arose after Muhammad Saeed, a resident of Talagang in Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
province filed an application with the Federal Investigation Agency two years ago accusing Zeeshan of posting blasphemous content in a WhatsApp group, Saeed’s counsel Ibrar Hussain told AFP.

The "FIA had confiscated Zeeshan’s cell-phone and its forensic examination proved him guilty," he said.

While Pakistain’s laws prohibiting blasphemy
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
can carry a potential death sentence

...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
, so far it has never been enforced for the crime.

Although many cases involve Moslems accusing fellow Moslems, rights self-proclaimed geniuss have warned that religious minorities -- particularly Christians -- are often caught in the crossfire, with blasphemy charges used to settle personal scores.

According to the National Commission of Justice and Peace, a human rights
...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you...
and legal aid group in Pakistain, 774 Moslems and 760 members of various minority religious groups were accused of blasphemy in the last 20 years.

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Iraq

Minister of Defense discusses with the Commander of the NATO Mission means to support the Iraqi armed forces

2023-01-12

[NINANEWS] Defense Minister Thabet Muhammad Saeed al-Abbasi met, in his office, at the Ministry headquarters, today, Wednesday, the Commander of the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
Mission in Iraq, Lieutenant General Giovanni Inucci, and his accompanying delegation.

A statement by the Ministry of Defense stated that they discussed , during the meeting, ways of NATO's support for Iraq and exchanged different views, especially with regard to the mission's projects in Iraq and making it more effective.

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Afghanistan

Organization of Islamic Cooperation opens office in Kabul

2022-03-07

[Khaama] Someone left the irony on: Bombing in 5...4....3...
A week after the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC)

...founded in 1969 as the 57-member Islamic Conference. It claims to be the collective voice of the Muslim world, to safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world. It looks like they’re Muslim bagmen, transferring donations from the wealthy to various charities and deserving governments...

special representative for Afghanistan Dr. Muhammad Saeed Ayash began its mission in Afghanistan, the organization’s office opened in Kabul on Sunday, March 6, 202.

OIC in a press release said that the office aims to oversee pledges made by foreign ministers of the organization about addressing the situation in Afghanistan.

As per the statement, the office will coordinate humanitarian activities with international agencies, and no effort will be spared to address the ongoing situation of the Afghan people.

The organization in an extraordinary summit over Afghanistan set up an exclusive bank account named Afghanistan’s Humanitarian Trust Fund.

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Iraq

Iraq’s Grand Ayatollah Hakim dies at 87 in Najaf

2021-09-05

[Rudaw] Iraq’s Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Saeed al-Hakim, a leading Shiite religious authority, has died of a sudden heart attack, his office announced on Friday.

Hakim died at the age of 87 at al-Hayat Hospital in the holy city of Najaf of a sudden heart attack, reported state media.

However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
an unnamed source close to the dear departed’s office told AFP that Hakim died after undergoing a surgery three days ago.

President Barham Salih offered his condolences on Twitter, saying that Hakim was "one of the most prominent [figures] of the Islamic nation who combined knowledge with work in consolidating the values of justice, faith, love and peace."

The US embassy in Baghdad described the figure as "a symbol of peace, love, and harmony across the region."

"Grand Ayatollah Hakim was one of the four elite holy mans of Najaf. He was considered by many to be the leading candidate for succeeding Grand Ayatollah Sistani, and his death will raise many questions about succession in the Hawza," tweeted Iraqi researcher Marsin al-Shamary.

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India-Pakistan

Petition submitted in LHC to quash FIRs against Hafiz Saeed, others

2019-08-21

[DAWN] A petition was submitted in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday for the First Information Reports (FIR) against Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
(JuD) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and 65 others to be quashed.

The high court is set to hear the petition submitted by a top JuD leader, Malik Zafar Iqbal, on August 22 (Thursday). The federal government, Punjab

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India-Pakistan

Gujranwala court extends Hafiz Saeed's judicial remand for 14 days

2019-07-25

The usual routine is to give them house arrest and then quietly spring them in six months or so.
[DAWN] A court in Gujranwala on Wednesday extended the judicial remand of Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
(JuD) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed for 14 days.

Special Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) judge Syed Ali Imran ordered the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) to complete its investigation and present a formal chalan in court on August 7. The court said that Saeed should also be presented in court on Aug 7.

Ahead of the JuD chief's appearance, strict security arrangements were made inside and outside the court premises with Anti-Riot Police, Dolphin Force and Elite Force personnel as well as police officials being deployed.

Following his arrest on July 17, Saeed had been sent to jail on seven-day judicial remand.

He had been arrested in connection with a terrorism financing case while on his way from Lahore to Gujranwala.

Six suspects ‐ Saeed, Mohammad Ali of Malikwal, Abdul Ghaffar of Okara, Hafiz Masood of Johar Town (Lahore), Ameer Hamza of Al Faisal Town and Malik Zafar Iqbal of Sheikhupura ‐ were nominated in the FIR registered against them on July 1 on a complaint of the CTD.

On July 3, the top 13 leaders of the banned JuD, including Saeed and Naib Emir Abdul Rehman Makki, were booked in nearly two dozen cases for terror financing and money laundering under the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.

The CTD, which registered the cases in five cities of Punjab, declared that the JuD was financing terrorism from the massive funds collected through non-profit organizations and trusts, including al-Anfaal Trust, Dawatul Irshad Trust, Muaz Bin Jabal Trust, etc.

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India-Pakistan

Pakistani police arrest Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed (again)

2019-07-17

[al jazeera] Pakistani police have arrested Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) armed group and head of its Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) humanitarian wing, intercepting him on his way to court in the central city of Gujranwala,
The pancake hat, a dead giveaway.
Saeed was arrested on Wednesday by a group of counterterrorism department police at the Kamoke toll plaza, about 50km north of Pakistan's second city Lahore, JuD spokesman Nadeem Awan told Al Jazeera.

"The cases against him are all related to fundraising," Awan said. "He is charged with terrorism financing."
and masterminding the Mumbai massacre, but that's not grounds for punishment in The Land of the Pure
The JuD said it would challenge the arrest in court and apply for bail for Saeed.

"We are going to the High Court, and we will continue to use legal means to fight the injustice against us, and we believe the courts will support us," Awan said.

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India-Pakistan

Hafiz Saeed, aides move court against terror financing charges

2019-07-14

[DAWN] Jamatud Dawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and his seven aides have approached the Lahore High Court challenging a case carrying charge of terror financing lodged by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) by ’wrongly’ showing them as members of the proscribed Lashkar-e-Taiba

...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
(LeT).

In a joint petition filed through senior lawyer A.K Dogar, the JuD leaders submitted that the facts narrated in the impugned FIR lodged on July 1, 2019 illegally described them as members of the LeT and levelled unlawful allegation of terror financing.

The counsel referred to a 2009 judgment by a full bench of the LHC against the detention of Hafiz Saeed...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat...
at that time and stated that the petitioners were not members of the LeT.

He stated that the LHC through another judgment issued in 2003 had held that Saeed had left the leadership of LeT on Dec 24, 2001 while the organization was banned on Jan 14, 2002.

The lawyer pleaded that the claim of the government that the petitioners were the members of the LeT stood disapproved in the light of the two judgments. Therefore, he asked the court to quash the impugned FIR lodged by the CTD for being unlawful and of no legal effect.

The other petitioners include Muhammad Ayub Sheikh, Zafar Iqbal, Syed Luqman Ali Shah, Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki, Abdul Salam, Abdul Ghaffar and Abdul Qudoos Shahid.

The federation through the secretary ministry of interior, Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
government through home department and the SHO CTD regional headquarters Lahore have been made party in the petition.

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India-Pakistan

Aasia Bibi case: JuD says it believes in legal recourse

2018-11-12

[DAWN] The Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
(JuD) has some reservations over the Aasia Bibi issue but it also has respect for the national institutions including the judiciary and that’s why it did not join the recent protest.

Explaining the low profile of the JuD in the otherwise violent protests by religiopolitical parties, party front man Ahmed Nadeem told Dawn that the party issued protest call for Friday last two days after the court decision was announced. But as the protests started going violent, the JuD decided to restrict itself to Friday sermons instead of coming on the roads.

"The day the decision was announced, the party consultative body was already in meeting. It discussed the decision threadbare and consulted senior lawyers on the issue. After the consultation, the party thought that it was legal mistake and can only be rectified through legal process. After all, the trial court sentenced her to death after a long trial. Later, the Lahore High Court upheld the sentence. Now the Supreme Court has set her free, giving her the benefit of the doubt.

"The JuD was of the opinion that the quantum of the benefit of the doubt (whether it was reasonable or not) can only be judged by lawyers and only they could plead it before court. So, instead of taking to the street, the party decided to wait for exhaustion of the legal process. That is precisely why the JuD chief was the first to demand a review petition. Others (Mufti Munib, Sirajul Haq

...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that...
et al) followed him the next day," says Mr Nadeem.

Substantiating his claim of non-violence being party philosophy, Mr Nadeem said the party kept its cool even when the government took over its charity organizations. It only challenged the decision in court. It did not go violent when its leader Hafiz Muhammad Saeed was jugged
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
in January this year and the party chief himself had directed his men to stay peaceful and concentrate on Kashmire Day. "It only goes to prove that the party respects the legal process and will wait for its exhaustion," he said and added: "It was very much part of a day-long (Friday) peaceful protest but went quiet when protests turned violent."

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