Pak will act against Saeed in accordance with evidence: Gilani

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 23rd, 2009 FRANKFURT -Highly placed government sources have specific inputs that Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafeez Saeed is not under house arrest in Lahore, but is living in protective custody in that city. The JuD chief, who is seen by New Delhi as the mastermind of 26/11, Mumbai attacks was arrested earlier this week by authorities in Pakistan, but was not booked for the Mumbai attacks.

September 22nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Tuesday confirmed that Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, had been arrested, with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani saying the evidence against him would decide what action needs to be taken. The interior ministry can tell you the actual position but I believe he is in custody.

September 22nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan appears to be setting the tone for the first high-level contact with India in two months, with its top leadership asserting it wanted improved sub-continental ties in the interest of peace and development. At a meeting with former US president Bill Clinton in New York Monday, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said the resumption of the sub-continental composite dialogue was in the best interests of the region.

September 22nd, 2009 Girls school attacked in troubled NW PakistanPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Suspected Islamist militants blew up a girls school close to the main city in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, police said. The school was empty at the time of the blast and no one was injured.

September 21st, 2009 LAHORE - Mumbai terror attacks mastermind and chief of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Hafiz Saeed, has been placed under house arrest. The Pakistani authorities have also barred him from leading Eid prayers.

August 23rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif is like a brother to him. Reacting to Sharif's statement that he was heart-broken by his (Gilani's) decision to distance the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) from former President General Pervez Musharraf's trial, Gilani said he would soon contact the former Prime Minister to address all his grievances.

August 21st, 2009 ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI - Pakistan said Friday an Indian dossier pointing to the alleged involvement of Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks did not contain anything substantial. The reference apparently was to a document handed over Aug 1 and not the one furnished only hours earlier Friday.

August 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI - Pakistan Wednesday banned the Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) of Hafiz Saeed, who India says masterminded the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, and 24 other religious and welfare organisations. Also banned is the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group that Saeed founded and which morphed into the JuD in the wake of the December 13, 2001, attack on the Indian parliament that New Delhi blamed on the outfit.

July 28th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan has denied arresting Jamaat-ud-Daawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, in connection with the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Interior Advisor Rehman Malik said there is 'not enough proof' of Saeed's involvement in the 26/11 carnage, so the alleged mastermind could not be put behind bars.

July 17th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - In the continuing game of political 'ping-pong' over Jamaat-ud-Dawaa (JuD) chief Hafeez Mohammad Saeed ,the Pakistan government has now claimed that it has enough proof against him to overturn the Lahore High Court's verdict to release the 26/11 mastermind. Deputy Attorney General Shah Khawar said the government has enough evidence against Saeed, and that it would utilize those facts to persuade the Supreme Court to declare the high court's verdict invalid.

July 14th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The government in Pakistan's Punjab province has decided to disassociate itself from the Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed case and filed a plea for its withdrawal. On Monday, the provincial government informed the Supreme Court that it has challenged the release of Saeed due to certain "confidential evidence" against him.

June 28th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani Sunday said a "cordial relationship" with India was not possible until the longstanding Kashmir issue was resolved, the Online news agency reported. "Pakistan has always wanted to have cordial relations with all neighbouring countries including Afghanistan, India and Iran, but talks between India and Pakistan without the resolution of Kashmir issue would be fruitless," Gilani told reporters at Mansoorah.

February 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the government's writ would be established in the Swat Valley at any cost, Pakistan's Online news agency reported. The security forces were undertaking operations against anti-state elements in the Swat, Gilani said while talking to Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani Thursday.