Pakistan turned down the visa request of a UN team which wanted to interview Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed on his application for removing his name from the UNSC sanctions list, according to UN sources.
Saeed was listed under UN Security Council Resolution 1267in December 2008 after the Mumbai terror attack in which 10 Lashkar-e-Taibaterrorists killed 166 people. He was released from house arrest in Pakistan inNovember 2017.
A representative from the Permanent Mission of Pakistan tothe UN informed the UN Ombudsperson in October last year that no visa would beissued for their travel to Pakistan, UN sources told PTI.