UN panel removes 'sahib' from Saeed's name, regrets mistake

December 22, 2014 23:49

A UN Security Council panel has issued a "revised" letter removing the term 'sahib' from the name of Mumbai terror attack mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Saeed, saying it regrets the mistake after India objected to the use of the salutation.

The chair of the Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee issued a revised letter yesterday in which it has 'regretted the mistake' in the previous letter dated December 17.

The committee's chair is Gary Quinlan, who is the Permanent Representative of Australia to the UN. Quinlan had made the reference to Saeed in the communication on information regarding banned terror or ganisation Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Saeed, the founder of LeT.

The new letter clearly mentions the correct primary name of the Pakistani terrorist as Hafiz Mohammed Saeed.

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