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Pakistan Rejects Us Bounty On Hafiz Saeed
* FO says US must provide 'concrete evidence' against JD chief * Evidence must withstand judicial scrutiny * Saeed mocks US move * Says America can contact him whenever it wants to * Ready to face 'any American court' to answer charges ISLAMABAD: Reacting to the US bounty on Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed  ...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain... , Pakistain on Wednesday said the United States must provide "concrete evidence" if it wanted Islamabad to act against Saeed. Foreign Ministry front man Abdul Basit said Islamabad would rather be presented with evidence about Hafiz Saeed than have a public discussion on the matter. "In a democratic country like Pakistain, where judiciary is independent, evidence against anyone must withstand judicial scrutiny," the front man added in a statement. The United States on Monday slapped a $10 million bounty on Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... , the banned ...the word bannedseems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all... organization accused of criminal masterminding the carnage that killed 166 people in Mumbai four years ago. The reward was announced by US Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman in India on Monday. Meanwhile, ...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin... Saeed made a defiant public appearance mocking his US bounty. He said he was ready to face "any American court" to answer charges. The 62-year-old former engineering and Arabic professor appeared on stage at a specially-convened presser in the Flashman Hotel, close to the headquarters of the Pakistain Army in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. "If the United States wants to contact me, I am present, they can contact me. I am also ready to face any American court, or wherever there is proof against me," he told news hounds in the hotel named after a fictional colonial hero. Saeed lives openly in Pakistain and has spent recent months making a number of high-profile appearances at demonstrations calling on the government not to reopen NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... supply lines to Afghanistan, which have been closed since November. He mocked the idea of offering a bounty for someone who lives so openly. "Americans seriously lack information. Don't they know where I go and where I live and what I do?" he said. "These rewards are usually announced for people who are hiding in mountains or caves. I wish the Americans would give this reward money to me. The US decision is aimed at silencing the Defence Council of Pakistain and to ensure resumption of supplies through backdoor channels and increase interference in Pakistain," he said. Pak rightwing, religious and cut-thoat groups have called for nationwide protests to denounce the US bounty on Saeed. "On Friday there would be countrywide protest," said Maulana Samiul Haq, chief of the Defence Council of Pakistain. Posted by: trailing wife 2012-04-05 |
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