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| US offers $10 mn bounty for Hafiz |
| US offers $10 mn bounty for Hafiz Saeed; will it change anything in Pak?
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| INDIA
, 3-April-2012
4:54:4 AM |
| The US has put Hafiz Saeed on its list of most-wanted terrorists and has announced a reward of $10 million for the capture or information leading to the capture of the man believed to be the mastermind behind the 26/11 terror attacks, which left 166 people, including six Americans, dead in Mumbai. Sources say India pushed the US on this and is now waiting to see if it will change anything in Pakistan, where Saeed, the founder of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, roams a free man.
Foreign Minister SM Krishna today welcomed the US move, announced here by visiting Under-Secretary of Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, saying, "India welcomes this move to bring the perpetrators of Mumbai terror attacks to book. It sends a strong message to the Lashkar, its members and patrons that the international community is together in combatting terrorism. This is a message to terrorists all over the world. I always insisted that he was the brain behind the terror attack in Mumbai."
India and the US, the minister said, had moved "closer than ever before in our common endeavour of fighting terrorism. Both sides have been victims of terrorism." Government sources said much effort went into this. India, they said, had constantly been in touch with the US and Mr Krishna had repeatedly requested US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to help bring Saeed to justice.
The sources said India knew a week ago about the US' move and was "hopeful and very optimistic that Hafiz will be brought to book." But the ball really is in Pakistan's court; Saeed is a free man there and often holds anti-India rallies. India has repeatedly sought Saeed's arrest, but Pakistan has each time sought "actionable" and "substantive" evidence against him before it can act.
Hafiz Saeed is believed to be a powerful figure in Pakistan. He heads the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa, ostensibly a charitable organization, but one that even the United Nations has said fronts the deadly Lashkar.
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