The US has announced a bounty of $ 10 million on outlawed Pakistan-based Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
This was stated by U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman while addressing a gathering at the American Centre here.
She was replying to a question on what the US was doing to bring to justice those involved in terror attacks against India.
Saeed, the founder of terror group LeT, is on India’s most wanted list. After the 26/11 attacks that left 166 people dead, India has asked Pakistan to hand him over.
Ms. Sherman, who is on a four day visit to the country, met Indian officials including Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai during which a host of key issues pertaining to Indo-US ties were discussed.
They also discussed the agenda for the Indo-US Strategic Dialogue to be held in Washington DC in mid-June.
Ms. Sherman is leaving for Patna on Tuesday, the first visit by such a high-ranking U.S. official to Bihar.
From India, Ms. Sherman would travel to Nepal, where she will meet with Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, other Nepalese officials and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Secretary-General Ahmed Saleem.
Keywords: U.S., Hafiz Saeed, 26/11 attacks, reward, Mumbai terror, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman
Raja Lylpuri- Kashmir isn't the issue. The huge class disparities is the issue and the radicals' most potent weapon. Pakistan's govt has always been dominated by the elites who have not done enough towards the rest of the countrymen, with the result that the poverty-stricken commoner is angry at the establishment and wants to vent his anger and frustration. The radicals offer him a place among the "brethren", a social standing based on a false equality and a reason not only for living but celebrating life. What do you expect is the outcome? That's how the bulk of the radical "brethren" are brought into the "fold".
"Kashmir dispute", the root cause of hatred against India, needs a solution acceptable to Kashmiries. Mere settling Hafiz Saeed won't work am afraid, there are hundreds more "Hafiz Saeeds" if not thousands.
@Shreenivas, You are comparing apples and oranges. If Shankaracharya was accused of carrying out terror attacks in Pakistan and if proof were to be provided for the same, India is duty bound to extradite Shankaracharya to Pakistan. Since Shankaracharya has not been accused of terrorism but Hafiz Saeed has been. Not only that proof has been provided too. If Pakistan is really interested in stopping terrorism, Pakistan should hand over Saeed to Interpol or Indian Authorities.
Would a covert operation cost less?
Now that it required the US Government to show us how to get our own terrorist, while the
UPA Government has only resorted to empty rhetorics, the UPA Government should for
once show gumption and add to this bounty.
I also hope that we as Indians stop to accept theatrics and rhetorics of this or any future
Government as substitute for real Government action when it relates to our National security.
It is a well-known fact that the terrorist in question is taking shelter in Pakistan with the
knowledge of the powers there. The US should have brought all kinds pressure on Pakistan
to handover all these terrorists for trial if US were really interested in eliminating terrorism. Of
late Pakistan has become a safe haven for terrorists and India has become a prime target for
these terrorists.
Will India handover its Sankarachaya or its Ahobila Mutt Jeer? Hafeez Saeed is
running schools to train teachers to propagate religion, like Dr. Zakir Naik and
Deobandis are doing in India. Unless the US does another operation Geronimo there
is no way they are going to get this "holy man" of Pakistan. Mullahs are revered in
Pakistan. This pipe dream should end and the world should really take stock of what
these preachers really do, before t is too late.
Will India handover its Sankarachaya or its Ahobila Mutt Jeer? Hafeez Saeed is
running schools to train teachers to propagate religion, like Dr. Zakir Naik and
Deobandis are doing in India. Unless the US does another operation Geronimo there
is no way they are going to get this "holy man" of Pakistan. Mullahs are revered in
Pakistan. This pipe dream should end and the world should really take stock of what
these preachers really do, before t is too late.
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