Islamabad: Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed accused US President Barack Obama on Wednesday of starting a religious war against Muslims over his handling of a video that mocked the Prophet Mohammad. Hafiz Saeed, accused by India of masterminding the 2008 attack by Pakistani gunmen on Mumbai, said Obama should have ordered steps to remove the film from the Internet instead of defending freedom of expression in America. "Obama's statements...
11:38 PM, Sep 26, 2012
The alleged mastermind of the 26/11 terror attacks Hafiz Saeed has hit out at India once again saying that dialogue should be suspended till the Kashmir issue is resolved. ...
09:17 AM, Sep 08, 2012
Tampa (Florida): The United States on Thursday slapped sanctions on Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba's top eight commanders, including Mumbai terrorist attack mastermind Sajid Mir and its founder Hafiz Saeed's son. Announcing the sanctions, the US said LeT, despite being designated as a foreign terrorist organisation in January 2002, continues to "operate in Pakistan" and throughout the region and engage in terrorist activities worldwide. "LeT has conducted numerous terrorist acts against...
09:11 AM, Aug 31, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Thursday said his country was "still waiting" for sufficient evidence against LeT founder Hafiz Saeed in the Mumbai attack case, despite India's repeated insistence that enough corroboration was provided to it. Malik said the matter had been taken right up to the Supreme Court but evidence was required to prosecute him. India, which terms Saeed as one of the masterminds of the Mumbai...
11:47 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Lahore: Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed has called on the Pakistan government to hold "serious talks" with India over the issue of sharing of river waters. He made the remarks while addressing a meeting of JuD activists in the border city of Sialkot, 70 km from Lahore, on Monday. "Islamabad should hold a serious dialogue with New Delhi on this crucial issue, which will damage the agriculture-based economy of Pakistan,"...
07:35 AM, Jul 31, 2012
London: Lashkar-e-Taiba founder and alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attack Hafiz Saeed has asked Pakistani leaders to aspire to become more like British Prime Minister David Cameron and Tory politician Boris Johnson. Saeed has professed his admiration for Cameron and Johnson's bike-riding "Islamic" lifestyles when he lodged a petition in the Lahore High Court calling for public officials in Pakistan to tone down their privileged lifestyles, Daily Mail...
06:04 PM, Jul 15, 2012
Lahore: In a setback to Hafiz Saeed promoted Defa-e-Pakistan Council, no mainstream political parties on Saturday attended a conference convened by it to mobilise support for its planned long march against the reopening of NATO supply routes to Afghanistan. The conference was not attended by representatives of key political parties like the PML-N or Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf. Leaders of parties like the Jamaat-e-Islami and Awami Muslim League, which are part of...
11:05 PM, Jul 07, 2012
New Delhi: Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist and 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks handler Zabiuddin Ansari aka Abu Jundal's voice samples will be matched with the intercepts available with intelligence agencies. Sources say Jundal's voice samples were collected by the intelligence agencies on June 22, a day after he was arrested by Delhi Police at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport after being deported from Saudi Arabia. The Mumbai Police will repeat the same...
02:07 PM, Jun 30, 2012
Washington: The arrest of a key handler of Pakistani terrorists who struck Mumbai is a "tremendous breakthrough" in India's 26/11 probe, a US expert has said, asking Pakistan to act against the perpetrators or else it may face global isolation and slide towards "pariah state status". "With the arrest of terrorist handler Abu Jundal ... on June 21, India has made a tremendous breakthrough in the investigations of the November...
10:18 AM, Jun 27, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan is a sovereign state and the Defa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) will not allow the country to become an "Indian market", Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed said. Saeed, described by India as the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, made the remarks while addressing a news conference with other leaders of the DPC in the southern port city of Karachi. He alleged that both the US and India were...
07:37 AM, May 27, 2012
Islamabad: India on Thursday said it has provided additional evidence against LeT founder Hafiz Saeed and other perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks to be used by Pakistani authorities to prosecute them, while expressing concern at the tardy pace of proceedings in the case. Home Secretary R K Singh said that Indian authorities had provided their Pakistani counterparts additional proof against Saeed while the Pakistani judicial commission that visited Mumbai...
07:52 PM, May 24, 2012
Lahore: LeT founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed has served legal notices on two Pakistani journalists for allegedly concocting a report about his secret meeting with US Ambassador Cameron Munter, seeking Rs 10 crore as damages. The notices were served on columnist Nazir Naji and reporter Amir Mir by Saeed's lawyer AK Dogar. The notices contended that Naji's column in the Urdu daily Jang on May 9 and Mir's report in the...
01:14 PM, May 16, 2012
Lahore: As Indian and Pakistani businessmen discussed ways to boost bilateral trade at a hotel in Lahore on Tuesday, Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed led a rally and warned traders against doing business with India. Businessmen from the two countries gathered in the cool environs of Pearl Continental Hotel while Saeed led the rally opposing peace with India at a venue hardly a kilometre away. He warned Pakistani businessmen not to...
01:56 AM, May 09, 2012
Large parts of Maharashtra are in the midst of a severe drinking water crisis. Hillary Clinton ends the American flip-flops on Hafiz Saeed. ...
11:58 PM, May 08, 2012
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said Hafiz Saeed was one of the principal architects of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. ...
11:51 PM, May 08, 2012
Hillary Clinton ends the American flip-flops on Hafiz Saeed, saying he masterminded the 26/11 attacks. ...
10:33 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: India and the US voiced their concerns over Pakistan's continued support to terror outfits in the meeting between US secretary of State Hillary Clinton and External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Tuesday. Spelling it out, Hillary finally answered India's questions on the US's position on Hafiz Saeed. She said Hafiz Saeed was one of the principal architects of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. "We wanted to make it...
09:37 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: The issue of Pakistan not doing enough to eliminate terror sanctuaries was raised both by India and the US in the meeting between External Affairs Minister SM Krishna and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday. After the meeting both Krishna and Hillary mounted more pressure on Pakistan to act against the perpetrators of the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. While Hillary said that the US had...
11:45 AM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: It is the third and final day of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to India. She will hold a breakfast meeting with External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Tuesday before heading back home. India is expected to seek clarity from the US on the bounty on Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed. The Iran issue is also likely to be discussed. India runs the risk of facing sanctions...
07:45 AM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Home Secretaries of India and Pakistan will hold bilateral talks on May 24 and 25 in Islamabad during which a liberalised visa regime for the two countries is expected to be approved apart from New Delhi pressing for action against perpetrators of 26/11 attack. During the parleys, which were being held after a delay of five months, a decision on issuance of multiple-entry and reporting-free visas for...
06:30 PM, May 07, 2012
