EFSAS comments on EhsanUllah Ehsan's 'escape' and Hafiz Saeed's 'conviction'
February 14, 2020
On the external front, the ‘escape’ of Ehsan, who in September 2010 had been included in the US list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, as well as the Pakistani military establishment’s shady role in the ‘escape’, need to be taken careful note of by the international community. It would also be worthwhile to recall, before the next session of the FATF commences in two days’ time, that the TTP had threatened attacks against the US, and the outfit had claimed responsibility for a failed May 2010 bomb attack in New York’s Times Square. The role that the FATF can play in straightening Pakistan’s crooked tail on the issue of its support for terrorism was, meanwhile, glaringly on display when a Lahore anti-terrorism court on 12 February convicted Lashkar-e-Taibah leader Hafiz Saeed in two terror-financing cases and handed him jail terms of five and a half years in each of the cases.
