According to India’s external affairs spokesman, Syed Akbarudin, India summoned the Pakistan high commissioner “to convey [India’s] strong feelings about (the) Lakhvi verdict.”
Source/Credit: Foreign Policy
By South Asia Channel | March 12, 2015
Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the alleged mastermind behind the Mumbai attacks, was ordered to be released by the Islamabad High Court in Pakistan on Friday (CNN). Lakhvi is a top leader of the terrorist group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and was out of jail on bail since last year and was not at the hearing on Friday where the court called his detention illegal.
The Mumbai attacks killed more than 160 people in November 2008, after heavily armed men stormed multiple buildings around Mumbai over a three-day period. India executed the last surviving gunman who participated in the attacks in 2012.
Lakhvi was among the seven people charged with planning, financing, and executing the attacks.
According to India’s external affairs spokesman, Syed Akbarudin, India summoned the Pakistan high commissioner “to convey [India’s] strong feelings about (the) Lakhvi verdict.”
The Indian Ministry of External Affairs summoned Abdul Basit, the Pakistani high commissioner in New Delhi, who, after the meeting said: "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” (NDTV).
Indian Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju told reporters: “Pakistan did not present the evidence before the court... The way the case has been handled by Pakistani agencies. Our concern is Pakistan should deal with terrorists in a manner in which the whole global community is looking at” (Livemint)
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