He was under house arrest since January this year.Lahore-based law firm - Mirza and Mirza Law Associates - has filed the petition on behalf of Saeed in the UN.Supreme Court Advocate Navid Rasul Mirza , the owner of this law firm, told PTI today that his law firm had recently filed the petition in the UN. "My law firm has filed the petition on Hafiz Saeed's behalf at the UN seeking removal of his name from its list of designated terrorists. "Mirza was Additional Advocate General of Punjab Government (1993-1996) and Prosecutor General for the National Accountability Bureau, a government anti-graft body (2000-03).This is the first time that Saeed has hired a law firm other than that of his permanent counsel Advocate A K Dogar. "In Pakistan, all cases of the JuD chief are being handled by Dogar. This firm to pursue his case in the UN has been hired in consultation with Dogar," a Jamaat-ud-Dawah office-bearer told PTI.

Source: Economic Times November 28, 2017 08:37 UTC