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Pakistan Court Jails Suspected Mumbai Attack Leader

Ayaz Gul

   ISLAMABAD - An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced a
   suspected radical Islamist leader to five years in jail in a terror
   financing case.

   The special court in the eastern city of Lahore convicted Zakiur Rehman
   Lakhvi, an alleged planner of the 2008 terror attacks in India, of
   running a medical facility to raise funds for financing terrorism.

   The anti-terrorism department in Pakistan's Punjab province, of which
   Lahore is the capital, released the details of the ruling Friday. It
   said Lakhvi, who was taken into custody only last week, was fined $622
   by the court.

   Lakhvi is allegedly the chief of operations of the proscribed
   Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group that India and the United States both
   accuse of plotting the 2008 Mumbai terror strikes. The violence killed
   166 people, including Americans.

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