RAWALPINDI-
Malik Ishaq, chief of banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, was acquitted in three cases by a Rawalpindi anti-terrorism court on Thursday on grounds of insufficient evidence, a private news channel reported.
ATC judge Judge Rana Masood Akhtar acquitted Ishaq in three cases related to terrorism for lack of sufficient evidence to continue case proceedings.
Cases against the LeJ chief had been filed in police stations in Talagang, Attock and Hazro.
Ishaq has spent 15 years in jail for charges of more than a 100 sectarian killings, of mostly Shia Muslims, as well as for inciting violence through hate speech. He has also been jailed for the attack on Sri Lankan cricket team in March 2009 in Lahore.
Ishaq was listed on the most wanted international terrorist lists by United States in February 2014.
Ishaq formed LeJ after his disassociation from radical militant outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba (SSP) in early 90s.
Both Lej and SSP remain banned by the government of Pakistan.
Ishaq rejoined SSP in 2012 after an agreement with Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) chief Ahmed Ludhianvi.