New Delhi, Delhi, India

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) co-founder and Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed has filed a petition in the United Nations asking that he be dropped from the list of designated terrorist, news reports said Tuesday. 

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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. 

Saeed is thought to be the mastermind of the attacks. 

India has been urging that he be brought to justice ever since. 

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

Hafiz Saeed was under house arrest in Pakistan since January 2017 but was released last week.

Soon after his release, Saeed promised to continue his fight to liberate Kashmir.

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The petition was filed with the UN while Saeed was still under house arrest by a Lahore-based law firm which has confirmed the move, the news reports said. 

According to the reports, the petition included "Hafiz Muhammad Saeed's de-listing request for removal of his name from the ISIL and Al-Qaida list handled by the United Nations Security Council’s ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee." 

According to the UNSC website, Saeed was outlawed for having links with "Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (QDe.118) and Al Qaida (QDe.004) for being a part of its financial activities, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of both entities."

Lashkar-e-Taiba was proscribed by the UN in May 2005. 

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