Pakistan has restored the bank accounts of top five leaders of proscribed Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), the frontal organisation of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), including its chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, The News reported on July 12. The restoration of bank accounts has taken place following formal approval of the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The other members of JuD who got their bank accounts restored include Abdul Salam Bhuttavi, Haji M Ashraf, Yahya Mujahid and Zafar Iqbal. All of them are UNSC’s enlisted terrorists though and currently facing sentences ranging one to five years in Lahore jail for terror financing cases filed against them by the Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD). The News sources claimed that each one of the JUD leaders had appealed United Nations for restoring their bank accounts that they could run their family affairs. “Initially we did not want to file an appeal but we were advised to file it as it was difficult for our leaders to run their affairs. Not only this it would have also raise questions how our leaders are running their families so we approached the authorities as it was in our favour whatever facility we have got in terms of restoration of our bank accounts is legal and with the approval of United Nations” said a key leader of JuD while requesting anonymity.