India may ask Pak about Hafiz Saeed
India is likely to ask Pakistan to disclose the whereabouts of Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief and alleged mastermind of the 26/11 terror attack Hafiz Muhammad Saeed at the time when convicted Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab along with nine other terrorists set sail from Karachi on a boat to unleash terror in Mumbai. The issue is expected to
be raised at the sidelines of the Saarc home/interior ministers’ conference being held in Islamabad on June 26. Armed with confessions of Kasab that the JuD chief and other Pakistani handlers had given them training and issued the final instructions, India is expected to ask Pakistan to come clean on Saeed’s role in the 26/11 attack .
“Saeed enjoys Z-plus security in Pakistan with nearly 200 men guarding him. It is not possible that the Pakistani authorities are not aware of his movements,” a government official said. The sources said that India has already shared details of Saeed’s visits to the places where the training of the 26/11 terrorists took place and the directions issued to them in the dossiers given to Pakistan. “If Saeed is saying that he never met Kasab, it is for the Pakistani authorities to give evidence to turn down Kasab’s claims,” the official said. Home minister P. Chidambaram and his Pakistani counterpart are expected to hold a bilateral meeting at the sidelines of the Saarc conference where the matter is likely to be raised. Pakistan high commissioner Shahid Malik met Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday days ahead of the Saarc home ministers’ conference.
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