India objects to Pakistan's release order of terrorist mastermind
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India on Friday summoned Pakistani envoy Abdul Basit and lodged strong protest against the Islamabad High Court's release order of Mumbai terror attacks alleged mastermind Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi.
Highly placed sources said that the Indian External Affairs Ministry raised its strong objection to the release order of the Mumbai attacks mastermind with Pakistani High Commissioner Abdul Basit, after the Islamabad High Court ruled this morning that Lakhvi's detention is illegal.
After coming out of the Indian External Affairs Ministry, the Pakistani envoy said that let the judicial process take its course in that country.
"He may have been granted bail but as you know the trial continues, we are all working to complete the trial. Let the judicial process take its course," Basit said.
Earlier in the day, the Indian Home Ministry reacted strongly to the release order of Lakhvi, saying it is Pakistan's responsibility to take all legal measures to ensure that he doesn' t come out of jail.
"The overwhelming evidence against Lakhvi has not been presented properly before court by Pakistani agencies. Pakistan must realize there are no good terrorists or bad terrorists," the ministry said.
India accuses Lakhvi, a 55-year-old top commander of the Pakistan-based banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, and six others of masterminding the 2008 Mumbai massacre, in which over 170 people were killed by 10 Pakistani militants who had entered the country's financial capital through sea route.
Lakhvi, who has been in jail since 2009 in Pakistan over the terror attacks in Mumbai, was in December last year granted bail by an anti-terror court, but India's strong protest against the order forced the Pakistani government to detain him again.
India claimed to have submitted to Pakistan at least seven dossiers containing evidence, including the confession of the only terrorist caught alive Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, against those who allegedly masterminded the terror attacks, but Islamabad said the proof are not enough.
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