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Pakistani Cleric Blamed for Deadly 2008 Mumbai Attacks Sentenced for Terror
Funding

Ayesha Tanzeem

   ISLAMABAD - The man accused of masterminding a deadly attack on Mumbai,
   India, more than a decade ago has been convicted in neighboring
   Pakistan in two terrorism-related cases.

   Radical cleric Hafiz Saeed was present in the courtroom in Pakistan's
   second largest city, Lahore, when he was found guilty of being a member
   of a banned group and collecting money to fund terrorist activities.

   He received two five-and-a-half-year prison sentences that will run
   concurrently.

   Saeed became a known figure worldwide when the group he headed at the
   time, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, or LeT, was blamed for a series of coordinated
   attacks lasting almost four days in Mumbai, India's financial capital,
   in November 2008. The attacks killed 166 people, among them, Americans,
   Canadians and Europeans.

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