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| India's protest leads to re arrest of Lakhvi | | |
The establishment in Islamabad contin-
ues to play hide and seek with most of
those involved in the Mumbai mayhem of 2008 in which 166 people were killed in a major terrorist strike.That Islamabad has turned a deaf ear towards New Delhi's persistent demand for initiating stern action against those allegedly involved in the terrorist attack in Mumbai.The courts in Pakistan seem to have come to the rescue of the accused as well as the Government in Islamabad by saying that the allegations leveled against Hafeez Saeed by India have not been proved correct.And the latest affront from Islamabad is in the shape of another Mumbai attack mastermind,Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi.First the anti terrorist court set him free after the court found that charges leveled against him had not been fully established.Later,whether under pressure from India or for internal security reasons,release of Lakhvi was postponed after the Government detained him under Maintenance of Public Order. Less than a week later the High Court in Islamabad which had suspended Maintenance of Public Order.However,India again protested and New Delhi adopted a tough stance over Lakhvi's release.But Islamabad was not to be faulted.First it was the anti-terrorist court that had set him free and later when he was rearrested under Maintenance of Public Order it was the High Court in Islamabad that suspended the Maintenance of Public order thereby setting the stage of Lakhvi's release.
And again Islamabad responded to New Delhi's strong protest by arresting Lakhvi just before his release following a Pakistani court's suspension of his detention.Lakhvi has been arrested in another case.Though Islamabad responded to world pressure for Lakhvi's arrest he had been detained in case of kidnapping which indicates that courts and Pakistan Government have absolved him of engineering Mumbai terrorist attack..Lakhvi was set to be freed from the Adaila Jail Rawalpindi Tuesday morning on the order of the Islamabad High Court.Lakhvi was then presented before a magistrate who remanded him in custody..The Islamabad High Court on Monday suspended the government's Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) under which Lakhvi was being held under detention, paving the way for his release.Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh summoned Pakistan High Commissioner Basit in New Delhi and the Indian mission in Islamabad took up the issue with the Pakistan Foreign Office.While suspending Lakhvi's detention order, the court directed the Pakistan government to file a reply in this regard on January 15.Lakhvi, who was the operations commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, was charged along with six others in 2009 in the Mumbai attack case. Ajmal Kasab, executed in India, and David Coleman Headley, convicted in the U.S. for planning the attacks, had identified Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi as the operations mastermind for the 26/11 terror attack on Mumbai in which 166 people were killed.
Well New Delhi has a cause to rejoice over the fresh detention of Lakhvi.Had not Islamabad moved fast and arrested Lakhvi New Delhi would have got an opportunity to even snap even diplomatic ties with Pakistan.In fact Islamabad's refusal to act against Hafiz Saeed and others,said to be perpetrators of Mumbai terrorist strike,has been the root cause for widening the wedge between India and Pakistan. It is one of the reasons that India has shown no interest in reopening of the channels of dialogue with Pakistan despite Islamabad's repeated pleas for the resumption of bilateral dialogue.Pakistan stands tormented by the activities of the Taliban and other terrorist groups.
More than 200 people,most of them security personnel,have been killed in series of terrorist strikes in various areas in Pakistan during the last six months. The latest being the killing of 148 people,including 132 schools children,in an attack organized by the Taliban on an Army school in Peshawar.
Following this attack Islamabad has intensified military operations against the Taliban in North Waziristan tribal belt.And it would be in the interests of Pakistan if it sought cooperation from India for tackling the menace of terror and India would be ready to lend a helping hand provided Pakistan stopped using its soil for exporting terror to India. |
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