Hafiz Saeed, the head of the Jammatud Dawa — a seminary and a charity — who has been under incessant Indian focus ever since the Mumbai attacks. He is alleged to have founded the now-banned Lashkar-e- Taiba (LeT), which is considered to have masterminded the Mumbai attacks in which 167 people were killed.

Saeed rejects allegations of any linkage with the Mumbai carnage and is willing to appear in any court to defend himself. He has been incarcerated twice under charges of possible culpability in the attacks, and both times he was released because of lack of evidence.