A Pakistani court has convicted Hafiz Saeed, the mastermindof the Mumbai terror attack, in the case of Terror Funding. The court hassentenced Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader Hafiz Saeed to five and a half years' prison.

Saeed was convicted and sentenced on two counts by a court inthe eastern city of Lahore on Wednesday. After this decision of the court, itis believed that this action has been taken on Hafiz Saeed due to pressure fromFinancial Action Task Force (FATF).

FATF has put Pakistan in its gray list and it was underthreat of going blacklist. Earlier in December, the charges were framed againstHafiz and his three close associates Hafiz Abdul Salam bin Muhammad, MuhammadAshraf, and Zafar Iqbal.