Hafiz Muhammad Saeed is the head of Jama’at-ud-Da’wah and a close aide of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which was responsible for 2008 Mumbai Attacks. The United Nations has declared Jama’at-ud-Da’wah a terrorist organization in December 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader.
He is quoted saying, “There cannot be any peace while India remains intact. Cut them, cut them so much that they kneel before you and ask for mercy.”
Here we present a short Biography of Hafiz Saeed. He was born in Sargodha Punjab on March 10, 1950 to a conservative Pakistani Punjabi family. He is married to a lady known as Maimoona. His family had lost 36 of its members when migrating from Shimla toLahore during the Partition of India
During the tenure of Gen. Zia-ul-Haq he was appointed to the Council on Islamic Ideology, and he later served as an Islamic Studies teacher at the University of Engineering and Technology (Lahore), Pakistan. He was sent to Saudi Arabia in the early 1980s by the university for higher studies where he met Saudi Sheikhs who were taking part in the Afghan jihad. They inspired him to join his colleague, Professor Zafar Iqbal, in taking an active role supporting the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. There he met some youth who later became his companions.
In 1987 Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, along with Abdullah Azzam, founded Markaz Dawa-Wal-Irshad, a group with roots in the Jamait Ahl-e-Hadis
This organization spawned the jihadist group Lashkar-e-Taiba in 1990, with the help of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence officers. Lashkar’s primary target is the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
 He holds two masters degrees from the University of Punjab and a specialization in Islamic Studies & Arabic Language from King Saud University.
On October 12, 2009, the Lahore High Court quashed all cases against Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and set him free. The court also notified that Jama’at-ud-Da’wah is not a banned organization and can work freely in Pakistan. Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, one of two judges hearing the case, observed “In the name of terrorism we cannot brutalise the law.”