Pakistan’s Supreme Court has indefinitely suspended hearings on the release of Lashkar-e-Taiba / Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader Hafiz Saeed. The government was challenging the Lahore High Court’s decision to release Saeed from a loose house arrest after the November 2008 Mumbai terror assault.
India said it has turned over enough evidence to Pakistan to allow it to proceed with the prosecution of Lashkar-e-Taiba founder and leader Hafiz Saeed for his involvement in the November 2008 terror assault on Mumbai. “The evidence provided in three dossiers is, in our view, sufficient to investigate role of Hafiz Saeed,” Indian Home […]
The provincial government of Punjab withdrew its petition to the Supreme Court to have Lashkar-e-Taiba / Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader Hafiz Saeed and his aide Nazir Ahmed placed under house arrest. The Punjab administration said it does not have sufficient evidence to substantiate the case.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court rejected the government’s appeal to re-arrest Lashkar-e-Taiba/Jamaat-ud-Dawa founder and spiritual leader Hafiz Saeed. The court denied the detention on a technicality; the government has refiled charges.
Four terror leaders are singled out, while Pakistani terror groups in Kashmir and the Northern Areas are thriving.
India has issued arrested warrants for 22 Pakistanis for complicity in the Novemeber 2008 terror assault on Mumbai. Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, and senior leaders Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi and Zarar Shah are among those charged. Pakistan has refused to extradite the men as it has no agreements with India.
Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the front group for the Lashkar-e-Taiba, has established a charity called the Falah-i-Insaniyat and opened an account in the Bank of Punjab in Lahore. The Falah-i-Insaniyat is accepting donations for the Swat relief effort and raising a significant amount of money.
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Police investigators told an Indian court that Lashkar-e-Taiba had direct links to Maoists in Jharkhand. The information came from Mohd Omar Madni, a leader for Lashkar-e-Taiba in India and Nepal, who was detained earlier this month.
The Lahore High Court said there is no evidence linking Hafiz Saeed, the leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, to the September 2008 terror assault on the Indian city of Mumbai. “The Attorney General contended that the petitioners are being blamed to be involved in Mumbai attacks, we have observed that not a single document has been […]
Indian anti-terror police in Delhi detained a key operative for Lashkar-e-Taiba in India and Nepal. The operative was to establish new sleeper cells to conduct attacks in India. The Punjab provincial government will appeal the release of Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Hafiz Saeed.
The Lahore High Court ordered the release of Hafiz Saeed despite the government’s presenting evidence linking him to al Qaeda. Pakistan said India’s disappointment at Saeed’s release is “misplaced” and claimed India did not provide evidence that allowed Saeed to be detained. Saeed denied that his group has any links to the Mumbai assault.
The Lahore High Court said Hafiz Saeed must be released from house arrest, despite seeing evidence that links him to al Qaeda.
According to a report, the Pakistani government has presented evidence to the Lahore High Court of Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Hafiz Saeed’s connections to al Qaeda. The evidence has been presented in a closed session and the court is considering extending Saeed’s house arrest.
Yusuf Muzammil, the senior operations commander for Lashkar-e-Taiba and one of the prime plotters in last year’s assault on Mumbai, is directing sophisticated cross-border strikes into India-held Kashmir despite Pakistan’s claim that he is in custody.
Lashkar-e-Taiba took credit for the fighting in Kupwara and warned India of new atacks. “The gun battles should serve as a message to India that the struggle for Kashmir™s freedom is on with full vigour,” a Lashkar spokesman said. India’s Army chief said Lashkar still operates 40 to 50 camps in Kashmir and Pakistan.
The US Senate Majority Leader stated that Lashkar-e-Taiba has links with Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence agency and that it was built by the ISI to fight in Kashmir. ‘So its [LeT’s] relationship to the Pakistan intelligence service is very disturbing,’ Senator Reid said.
Indian and US investigators determined the identity of two of the Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives involved in the Mumbai attacks. Abu Al Qama, LeT’s operations chief in India, is Mazhar Iqbal; Zarar Shah, the trainer of the assault team, is Abdul Wajid. LeT had plans to set up an operational base in Colaba in South Mumbai.
Lashkar-e-Taiba had a list of 320 locations throughout the world as potential targets for for military-style terror assaults such as the one carried out in Mumbai, India in November 2008. The list was discovered on the computer owned by Zarar Shah, Lashkar-e-Taiba’s communications chief and a key figure in the Mumbai attack who is in […]
The provincial government of Punjab took control of Jamaat-ud-Dawa’s Markaz-e-Taiba headquarters in Muridke. A chief administrator will “supervise and monitor all activities at the [Jamaat-ud-Dawa’s] headquarters.” Jamaat-ud-Dawa is a front for the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Indian security forces raided an empty Lashkar-e-Taiba camp in Doda in Jammu. Lashkar-e-Taiba and other jihadi groups are said to be rethinking their strategy toward Kashmir and Jammu. Germany’s chief of police believes Lashkar-e-Taiba was behind the Mumbai attacks.
Lashkar-e-Taiba’s spokesman said the group supports “the freedom of Kashmir … though peaceful means” and denied the group supports global jihad. He also denied involvement in the November 2008 Mumbai terror assault. A pamphlet produced by Lashkar-e-Taiba advocated the restoration of the Islamic caliphate and jihad against the US and Israel.
Pakistan claimed to have detained 71 members of the Jamaat-ud Dawa and Lashkar-e-Taiba, placed 124 members under surveillance, closed down training camps, and shut down the group’s website. An Indian TV station said the Jamaat-ud Dawa has renamed itself and leaders are operating in the open. A captured ISI agent said Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed are […]
Relatives of Hafiz Saeed, the leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba / Jamaat-ud Dawa, have raised funds for the terror group while living and working in mosques in the eastern United States and in California. Saeed’s brother and brother-in-law are currently in US jails, while another brother was deported.
Jamaat-ud Dawa, Lashkar-e-Taiba’s front group, said Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and Zarar Shah, the masterminds behind the Mumbai terror assault, never had links with Hafiz Saeed or the organization. Jamaat-ud Dawa also suggested the lone surviving Mumbai terrorist was kidnapped by Indian intelligence and forced to conduct the attack.
The Indian dossier on the Mumbai terror attack includes transcripts of phone calls between Pakistani handlers and the terrorists as they conducted their attacks. The handlers order murders, listened over the phone, and cheered the outcome. An intelligence source told The Long War Journal that former Paksitani intelligence chief Hamid Gul is one of the […]
A spokesman for Jamaat-ud Dawa, the front group for Lashkar-e-Taiba, warned that Pakistan is making a “big mistake” by acting against the group after the United Nations labeled it a terror entity last December. “Hafiz Saeed (the group’s founder) has followers all over Pakistan, and it is not possible for the government of Pakistan to […]
Zarar Shah admits role in Mumbai attacks; Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi is caught on tape communicating with Mumbai attackers.
Pakistani security officials said that Zarar Shah, a top Lashkar-e-Taiba commander, admitted to his involvement in the Mumbai attack during interrogation. Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the banned front group for the Lashkar, said it would continue its charitable work despite the so-called government crackdown. The Punjab provincial government said it was prepared to appoint a supervisor for Jamaat-ud-Dawa’s […]
The US backs India’s evidence on Lashkar-e-Taiba’s involvement in the Mumbai attack. The captured Mumbai terrorist Kasab may speak on Indian television. Pakistan claimed Kasab is not a Pakistani citizen.