Unimpressed by Pakistan’s newfound reverence for Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed ‘sahib’, the US has reiterated its call for Islamabad to arrest and prosecute him to the fullest extent as the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks. “He was the mastermind, we believe, of the 2008 Mumbai attacks which killed many people, including Americans as well,” she said. Abbasi called, to international scorn, Saeed “sahib” during an interview with Geo News, in which he said there was no case against the LeT founder. “There is no case against Hafiz Saeed sahib in Pakistan,” he said about the man designated a terrorist by the US and the UN. Saeed, for whom the US has offered a $10 million bounty, was released after 10 months under house arrest in November.

Source: Hindustan Times January 19, 2018 03:54 UTC