ISLAMABAD – Pakistan sends three JeM Militants to jail over terrorfinancing.
A court in Pakistan has sentenced three militants to five years in prisonafter finding them guilty of collecting funds for an outlawed group that isblamed to have claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that killed40 Indian troops in Kashmir earlier this year.
According to a statement released by a counter-terrorism department Friday,the three men have begun serving their sentences.
It says the three unidentified men were local leaders of outlawedJaish-e-Mohammed, which claimed responsibility for the Feb. 14 suicideattack in the Indian-controlled Kashmir region. The Pulwama bombing raisedtensions between India and Pakistan and brought the two nuclear rivals tothe brink of war.
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Since then, Pakistan has arrested several men as part of its crackdown onterror financing.
