A Pakistan court on Wednesday, 12 February, convicted Jamat-ud-Dawa chief (JuD) Hafiz Saeed in two of the six terror financing cases against him, newspaper Dawn reported.

He was given a prison sentence of five and a half years and a fine of Rs 15,000 in each case, the media report said. The sentences of both cases will run concurrently.

The anti-terrorism court, or ATC, had indicted Saeed and others on 11 December in terror financing case in day-to-day hearing.

In the two concluded cases, the prosecution had produced some 20-odd witnesses in the ATC who testified against Saeed and his close aides for their involvement in terror financing.