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Govt to appeal against release of Hafiz Saeed
 Pakistani authorities vowed on Wednesday to appeal against a court order to release Jamaatud Dawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. Tuesday's court order sparked a sharp reaction from India and was likely to ruffle relations with the US, which has made rooting out extremism in Pakistan a key component of its foreign policy. "The government has decided to file an appeal against the release order of Hafiz Saeed," Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah told AFP after the Lahore High Court ordered the cleric's release. "We have received the detailed verdict of the court. Our legal advisers are studying it, and we told them to file an appeal against this verdict," he said. "We'll keep going through the motions until the American attention span peters out..." Pakistan put Hafiz Saeed under house arrest in early December and publicly shut offices of the charity after the UN Security Council blacklisted the organisation as a terror group. Posted by: Fred 2009-06-04 |
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