A day after India's most wanted terrorist Hafeez Saeed was released by a Pakistan court, the Pakistani Ambassador to the United Nations has said the government did not have enough grounds to detain him.
Saeed was placed under House Arrest following a United Nations ban after the Mumbai attacks. But according to the ambassador, the detention was not required in the UN resolution.
Hafiz Saeed, the head of the Jamaat-Ud-Dawa (JuD), a front group for the Lashkar-e-Taiba has been set free by the Lahore High Court. The court said there wasn't enough evidence to hold him any longer.
In court his lawyer argued that the ban was not enough since it didn't call for Saeed's arrest and there was no evidence to link Saeed to Mumbai. The Pakistani government however had told the court that he does have a link with the Al-Qaida.
He was placed under house arrest last December after the UN banned the JuD following the Mumbai attacks.
Reacting to the release of Saeed, New Delhi said it was disappointed and Foreign Minister SM Krishna met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the interim US Ambassador on this.
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