Kasab has no connections with JuD: Hafiz Saeed

September 24th, 2009 LAHORE/NEW DELHI - Hafiz Saeed, who India holds to be mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, is not under house arrest and is a free man, his lawyer said Thursday, adding he had appealed against the two new cases filed against him by the Pakistan government. "He is not under arrest.

September 24th, 2009 LAHORE - Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, is not under house arrest and is a free man, his lawyer said Thursday, adding that he had appealed against the two new cases filed against him by the Pakistan government. He is not under arrest.

September 22nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that action against Jamaat-ud-Dawa Chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, would only be taken based on evidence gathered against him. Interacting with media persons on the sidelines of a program in Multan, Gilani said action against Saeed would be taken in accordance with the evidence, which clearly implies that Islamabad is unlikely to take any substantial action against the terrorist leader.

September 20th, 2009 LAHORE - Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and chief of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa group, has been put under house arrest at his residence here, a media report said Monday. A posse of police personnel has been deployed outside his residence, "restricting his movement", Geo TV reported Monday.

September 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Visiting Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram Thursday met US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and asked Washington to put pressure on Pakistan to conduct the trial of Mumbai terror attack conspirators, including Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed.

September 7th, 2009 ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI - Pakistan Monday reiterated its sincerity in bringing the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks to justice, saying India should assist in the process instead of making allegations on Islamabad's intentions. "India should not doubt our sincerity in handling this case.

September 7th, 2009 ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI - Pakistan Monday reiterated its sincerity in bringing the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks to justice, saying India should assist in the process instead of making allegations on Islamabad's intentions. "India should not doubt our sincerity in handling this case.

September 3rd, 2009 DUBAI - Notwithstanding Interpol's Red Corner notice issued against the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief Hafiz Saeed, the alleged 26/11 mastermind, Pakistan has once again refused to take action against him, saying the government is not 'obliged to immediately arrest him'. Interior Advisor Rehman Malik said there are not have enough evidence to establish the LeT kingpin's involvement in the terror attacks.

July 7th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Government and the Punjab province Government on Tuesday re-filed the petitions against the release of Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, after removing the objections. The federal and Punjab governments after removing these objections have re-filed the petitions.

June 13th, 2009 LAHORE - The Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, who himself has apparently been involved in a number terrorist attacks, has condemned Friday's suicide attacks on a mosque in Lahore in which Pakistan's top religious scholar, Dr Sarfraz Naeemi Al-Azhari was killed. In an apparent bid to gain public sympathy and represent himself as a humanitarian leader, Saeed denounced the terrorist attack, terming it as an 'inhumane' and 'un-Islamic' act.

June 5th, 2009 LAHORE - Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Syed Munawwar Hasan called on Jamaat-ud-Dawa achief Hafiz Saeed at his residence to congratulate him on his release. Both leaders discussed matters of mutual interests and the prevailing security situation in the country.

June 2nd, 2009 LAHORE - Immediately after his release from house arrest on Tuesday, the Mumbai terror attacks' mastermind Hafiz Saeed has said that Pak forces should be brought back from the Swat region, as there was no need to fight. Geo TV quoted Saeed as saying that he neither supports the suicide attacks nor does he accept the Swat Operation.

June 2nd, 2009 LAHORE/NEW DELHI - Hafiz Saeed, the founder of terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) that India has blamed for the 26/11 Mumbai mayhem and whose house arrest was annulled by a Pakistani court, Tuesday denied he was ever in touch with Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone gunman captured alive during the carnage. Ajmal Kasab has neither been in touch with him nor with his organization, Geo TV quoted Saeed as saying soon after his release.

June 2nd, 2009 LAHORE - The Pakistan Government's reservations about producing evidence against the Mumbai terror attacks' mastermind Hafiz Saeed may have been the reason behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief's release from house arrest. The Lahore High Court has ordered Saeed's release due to lack of evidence, but it is pertinent to note that Pakistan's Attorney General Sardar Latif Khosa had just days ago told the Lahore High Court that the government had enough 'material' to prove Saeed's involvement in terror activities, but it couldn't produce it in the court keeping in mind the 'national security'.

May 31st, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan Attorney General Sardar Latif Khosa has said that the government has enough 'material', other than a UN resolution, to keep the Jamaat-ud- Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and his colleague Colonel (retired) Nazir Ahmad under custody. Khosa told the Lahore High Court (LHC), which is hearing Saeed's detention case, that the custody of the two JuD leaders was protective and preventive in nature, and not the detention for which the petitioners had moved the habeas corpus petition.