In Pakistan, talking and writing about India is anathema. Eulogizing Hafiz Saeed, the Jammat-ud-Dawa leader and mastermind of the 26/11 attack is considered as passport to good life and protection from any retributive action from Pakistan Army and its supporters. Imran Khan headed new Pakistan government works as a facilitator[Read More…]
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Won’t mind crossing border to protect Kashmir: Rajnath
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said no power in the world can take Kashmir away from India and if need be forces can cross border to protect the country’s territorial integrity. “Kashmir is, was and will be ours always. No one can take it from us,”[Read More…]
Pakistani court says ‘no’ to arresting Hafiz
Lahore: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday directed the Pakistan and Punjab governments not to arrest or put Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief and 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed under house arrest until further orders. Saeed on January 23 moved the court against his possible arrest, arguing that the government,[Read More…]
Hafiz Saeed’s house arrest extended for another 30 days
Mumbai attack mastermind and Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed’s house arrest has been extended on Thursday for another 30 days by a Judicial Review Board of Pakistan’s Punjab province. The board refused to allow the same in the detention of his four aides. The 30-day detention will be applicable from October[Read More…]
Pak drops terror charges against Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed
Moving a step closer to freedom, Mumbai attack mastermind and JuD chief, Hafiz Saeed, has been freed from the charges of terrorism. The move comes after the Pakistan government withdrew the charges against him. On 31 January, Saeed and his four aides were detained by the Punjab government for 90[Read More…]
Hafiz Saeed detained for ‘spreading terrorism in the name of jihad’
Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed and his four aides have been detained by Pakistan for “spreading terrorism in the name of jihad”. Home Ministry of Pakistan has levelled charges against him and produced him before a judicial review board which was headed by Pakistan Supreme Court judge Ejaz Afzal Khan. As[Read More…]
JuD chief Hafiz Saeed challenges house arrest in Lahore High Court
Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed along with four others has challenged their house arrest on Wednesday in the Lahore High Court. Justice Sardar Muhammad Shamim Khan will hear their petition today. Hafiz Saeed, Malik Zafar Iqbal, Abdur Rehman Abid, Qazi Kashif Hussain and Abdullah Ubaid challenged their detention through senior advocate[Read More…]
Pakistan cancels Hafiz Saeed’s weapons license
Pakistan has cancelled the licenses of 44 weapons issued to Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed and other members of his organisations, citing security reasons. “The Punjab Home Department cancelled licenses of 44 weapons for security reasons,” an official told reporters on Tuesday. Pakistan had put Saeed and four leader of his[Read More…]
Action against Saeed first step in bringing him to justice: External Affairs Ministry
Pakistan lists Hafiz Saeed and aide under Anti-Terrorism Act
Never engaged in terrorist activities, lift travel ban: Hafiz Saeed to Pak govt
Claiming that he was neither a threat nor has his unit ever engaged in any terrorist activities, the Jamaat-ud Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed asked the Pakistan government to take out his name immediately from a list that stops him from leaving the country. “A memorandum issued on January 30, 2017[Read More…]
Hafiz Saeed detention in national interest: Pakistan Army
The detention of Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed was a “policy decision in the national interest” as the government declared that the Jamat-ud Dawa leader’s 90-day house arrest could be stretched if needed, said Pakistan’s army on Tuesday. “The detention is a policy decision taken in the national interest. The[Read More…]
Hafiz Saeed, 4 others put under house arrest in Lahore
Following mounting pressure from the Trump administration, Pakistani authorities have placed Mumbai attacks mastermind and Jamaat-udDawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed and four others under detention on Monday night. The step was taken under an anti-terrorism act. As per a police officer, Saeed, a co-founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), would be placed[Read More…]
Hafiz Saeed claims responsibility for Akhnoor attack; army rubbishes
Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed claimed responsibility for the Akhnoor attack where terrorists attacked a General Reserve Engineer Force (GREF) camp in the Jammu and Kashmir district, while addressing hundreds of its activist. The Pakistan-based terror mastermind was heard on a tape saying that four of his “young boys” carried out[Read More…]
Ahead of Surat rally, posters of Kejriwal with Burhan Wani, Hafiz Saeed and bin Laden
Days ahead of AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal’s October 16 rally in Surat, banners carrying his photographs with Burhan Wani, Hafiz Saeed and Osama bin Laden, terming them ‘heroes of Pakistan’, appeared at different locations across the city on Thursday. While AAP blamed BJP, the saffron party denied it had anything[Read More…]
Lashkar-e-Taiba responsible for deaths of innocent lives: US
Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has been designated as a terrorist organisation by the UN, is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent lives, including American citizens, the US has said even as it refused to comment on the outfit’s leader Hafiz Saeed. “I’m not going to respond to comments that may[Read More…]
Blunt message: Pak can’t ‘Pick & Choose’ terror groups to go after, says US
The US on Thursday told Pakistan it cannot “pick and choose” the terrorist groups it goes after and has to target militants who seek to harm its neighbours, taking refuge on its territory. The US also rejected 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed’s remarks that America and India have joined[Read More…]
RSS affiliate withdraws Iftar invite to Pakistan
The Rashtriya Muslin Manch has withdrawn its invitation to Pakistan high commissioner Abdul Basit to attend its Iftar party at the Parliament Annexe on July 2. In the wake of the Pampore attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, the RSS-affiliate body did a quick U-turn citing Pakistan’s failure to condemn the[Read More…]