Pakistan Frees Suspected Mumbai Attack Mastermind

[edpc]

Lahore (Pakistan) (AFP) - A Pakistani court Wednesday ordered the release of one of the alleged masterminds of the 2008 Mumbai attacks which killed more than 160 people, after months of US pressure on Islamabad over its alleged support for militants.

Firebrand cleric Hafiz Saeed, who heads the UN-listed terrorist group Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and has a $10 million US bounty on his head, will be freed tomorrow after less than a year in detention following the decision by the Lahore High Court, a JuD official said.

"The review board looking in to the case... has refused to extend his house arrest as the government failed to provide any evidence against the charges," a spokesman for the party, Ahmed Nadeen said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pakistan-frees-suspected-mumbai-attacks-mastermind-111944555.html

[edpc]

Not particularly surprising from the nation that harbored bin Laden and idolizes nuclear proliferator A. Q. Khan.

[Fishrrman]

I've said it before but I'll repeat:

Pakistan:
An entire nation the world would be better off without...