Saeed was also charged in the Sindh High Court with kidnapping for ransom, and acts of terrorism.
The United States regards the Abu Sayyaf as terrorists, although its main activity is kidnapping for ransom.
That is a risk, especially in a kidnapping for ransom by nonstate groups.
The rebels pledged to stop kidnapping for ransom last year and released ten policemen and soldiers they had been holding captive.
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Last year, the rebels pledged to stop kidnapping for ransom and released 10 policemen and soldiers they had been holding captive.
America says it regards the Abu Sayyaf as international terrorists, although their main activity is kidnapping for ransom in the vicinity of the southern Philippines.
But the figure is misleading - as police try to separate kidnapping for ransom from simple kidnappings, which are related to what they term family incidents.
They finance themselves largely through drug-trafficking and kidnapping for ransom.
It has been seen as the more politically motivated of the two rebel groups in Colombia, but has over the past years increasingly resorted to drug trafficking, extortion and kidnapping for ransom to finance its insurgency.
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In the Central African Republic, the agency reports that armed gangs terrorize farms and communities, kidnapping children and holding them for ransom.
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Twenty-five people were arrested in 2009 over the kidnapping of some 16 wealthy Bulgarians for ransom.
They also allege that police offers got involved in a number of other criminal activities - kidnapping drug dealers and their relatives for ransom, and conducting security operations against them if they failed to pay the bribes.
Cyber-attacks on financial accounts and kidnapping and ransom can be additional concerns for the wealthy.
Kidnapping though usually of Colombians, and for ransom is a common guerrilla tactic.
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