They are close aides of 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed.

The two were identified as Abdul Rehman Makki and Abdus Salam.

A Pakistani court in June indicted Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki and three other leaders of Jamaat ud Dawa (JuD) in one of the cases against them carrying charges of terror financing.

Makki and other suspects – Malik Zafar Iqbal, Yayha Aziz and Abdul Salam – pleaded not guilty and opted to contest the trial, reported Dawn News.

The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) had registered some 23 FIRs against the JuD chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and its other leaders during 2019 in police stations of Lahore, Gujranwala, Multan, Faisalabad, Sahiwal and Sargodha, reported the newspaper.

The CTD accused them of using properties of religious seminaries and mosques for terror financing.