BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya called Yasin Malik’s affidavit “shocking,” after the jailed JKLF leader claimed that late ex-PM Manmohan Singh had thanked him for meeting Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed in 2006. The claim, made in the Delhi High Court, raises fresh questions over the UPA’s handling of national security.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday warned Pakistan that Operation Sindhoor was just a pause and if Pakistan repeated its mistake, it would not get even a chance to recover.
Referring to India's recent move to suspend the water-sharing treaty following a deadly terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam, Pakistani military spokesperson Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said, "If you block our water, we will choke your breath."
Pakistani military spokesperson Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry has issued a warning to India similar to that used by Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist Hafiz Saeed.
“Pakistan has received a request from the Indian authorities, seeking extradition of Hafiz Saeed in a so-called money laundering case,” Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch was quoted as saying.
“This is not the first time that Hafiz Saeed has been arrested or detained. This drama has taken place at least 8 times since 2001. The question is whether this time it would be more than a cosmetic exercise and whether Saeed will be tried and sentenced for his terrorist activities,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said at a media briefing here.
Hafiz Saeed was arrested on Wednesday by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Pakistan’s Punjab Province and sent to judicial custody.
Following global pressure, Pakistan had on July 3 booked Hafiz Saeed and his 12 accomplices for 'terrorism financing' in 23 cases.
Besides Saeed, interim bail was granted to Hafiz Masood, Ameer Hamza and Malik Zafar too.
He accused Pakistan of going into the denial mode whenever New Delhi demanded that terrorists wanted by India be handed over to it.
