The brother of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the chief of banned militant outfit Lashkar-e Tayiba, has been deported to Pakistan from the US along with his family, a media report said in Islamabad on Monday.
Imam Hafiz Muhammad Hamid, Saeed's brother, was deported on Sunday and is expected to arrive in Pakistan on Tuesday morning, Daily Times reported from Washington on Monday.
Hamid was an Imam at the Islamic Centre of Greater Worcester, Massachusetts, and had been fighting "immigration regulation infringements" for the last several months, the report said.
His other brother, Hafiz Muhammad Masood, is also fighting deportation and is now waiting for the next hearing of a US federal immigration court on October 11 this year.
On Friday last, his friends and supporters arranged a fundraiser for Hamid and his family.
Hamid had come to the US in 2000 to attend a finance conference organised by the Harvard Programme for Islamic Finance. He stayed on to become the Imam of the Worcester mosque, the paper said.
Before coming to the US, Hamid, who closely worked with the Islamic Society of Boston, is believed to have been in charge of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba safe house at Moon Chowk, Lahore, it said.
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