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Pakistan to arrest key suspect in Mumbai attacks | ||
2009-09-19 | ||
[Iran Press TV Latest] Pakistan has bowed to India's demand to arrest the alleged mastermind of last November's Mumbai attacks to help ease the fraught ties between the two states. New Delhi has said that Islamabad should arrest Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the founder of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group, as the key suspect in masterminding last year's 3-day carnage in Mumbai that killed 180 people, including those who carried out the attacks. The Pakistani police said on Friday that they would arrest Saeed for propagating 'holy war', and collecting funds for a so-called charity which he heads.
Faisalabad police say they have lodged two complaints against Saeed this week for delivering a speech to his supporters last month in which he urged for jihad and appealed for funds for his Jamaat-ud-Dawa charity. "We hope to arrest him soon," Hafiz Mohammad Irfan, a senior police official in Faisalabad told Reuters.
Pakistan has acknowledged the Mumbai attack was partly plotted and planned from its soil, but still complains that evidence given by India about Saeed is insufficient and not tenable in court. | ||
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