The bank accounts of top five leaders of Jamaat-ud-Dawa
(JUD) and Lashkar -e-Taiba (LeT) including Hafiz Muhammad Saeed have been
restored by the Pakistani government, reported news agency ANI quoting
Pakistani media.

The restoration of bank accounts took place after formal
approval of the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council
(UNSC), reported the country’s local media.

Other members of whose bank accounts were restored
include Abdul Salam Bhuttavi, Haji M Ashraf, Yahya Mujahid and Zafar Iqbal. All
of them are UNSC’s enlisted terrorists, and are currently facing sentences
ranging 1 to 5 years in Lahore jail for terror financing cases filed against
them, by the Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD).

The local media claimed that the five enlisted terrorists
leader appealed the UN to restore their bank accounts so that they could run
their family affairs.

Hafiz Saeed is a Pakistani Islamic militant and co-founder
of Lashkar-e-Taiba and the chief of Jama’at-ud-Da’wah. In April 2012, the
United States announced a bounty of $10 million on Saeed for his alleged role
in the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 164 civilians.