Photo: AFPNew Delhi: India Monday cautiously welcomed Pakistan’s move to list militant leader Hafiz Saeed and four of his aides under the country’s Anti-Terrorism Act, imposing restrictions on their movement and communication with the media. “Hafiz Saeed is an international terrorist, the mastermind of Mumbai terrorist attack and responsible for unleashing wave of terrorism against Pakistan’s neighbours through LeT/JuD (Lashkar-e-Toiba/Jamaat-ud-Dawa charity) and their affiliates,” Indian foreign ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup said. Swarup, however, qualified his remarks with the hope that the listing of Saeed under Pakistan’s terrorism Act would be only the “logical first step”—implying that India was looking forward to more steps like bringing Saeed to justice—to follow. According to Section 11EE of Pakistan’s terrorism act, people involved in terrorism, members of an organisation that is banned or on the interior ministry’s watch list or suspected to be involved with a group involved in terrorism can be included in the Fourth Schedule. Saeed currently heads the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which has not been banned but is on the watch list.

Source: Mint February 20, 2017 06:45 UTC