The Gujranwala Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) of Punjab on June 25, handed down 16 years imprisonment each to five Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) militants for terror financing and keeping explosives, reports Dawn. Convicted terrorists were running a media cell of the AQIS in Gujranwala. They were arrested in a joint operation by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab and an intelligence agency in December 2019. The punishment was handed down after trial in a case registered and investigated by the CTD. The court found Abdullah Umair, Ahmadur Rehman, Asim Akbar Saeed, Muhammad Yaqoob and Muhammad Yousaf guilty of the offences. Each convict was handed down five years in prison for terrorism financing, seven years for keeping explosives, three years for supporting proscribed AQIS and one-year imprisonment for keeping literature of AQIS. The personal properties of convicts were confiscated and fines were also imposed on them.