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Pakistan jails Zakiur-ur-Rehman Lakhvi for 15 years in terror funding case

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A court in Punjab capital has sentenced Zakiur-ur-Rehman Lakhvi to 15 years in jail in a terror funding case, barely a week after his arrest.

Lakhvi, 61, was arrested earlier this month by Pakistan’s Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) during a raid conducted in Lahore. The department’s spokesperson said that Lakhvi was arrested during a raid for allegedly financing terrorists.

He is accused of being a leader of a militant group blamed by the United States and India for the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

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