Hafiz Saeed to contest Pakistan general elections in 2018

Jamaatud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed has announced that he would contest the general elections in 2018. 

JD(U) chief has reportedly told he would contest on a national assembly seat from the Milli Muslim League (MML), according to Pakistani media reports.

Hafiz Saeed launched MML in August 2017. 

The league claims to work to make Pakistan a real Islamic and welfare state. 

Saeed, accused of masterminding the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, was released on November 24 after a Pakistan judicial body ordered his release from house arrest, rejecting a request from the government of Punjab to extend his detention by three months.

After his release from the house arrest, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) co-founder and Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed had filed a petition in the United Nations asking that he be dropped from the list of designated terrorist.

Saeed was put on the UN terror list on December 10, 2008, a few days after the November 26 attacks on Mumbai which claimed 166 lives. 

The US has also designated Saeed a terrorist and put a $10 million bounty on his head.