{"id":53172,"date":"2017-11-24T07:14:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T07:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=53172"},"modified":"2017-11-24T07:14:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T07:14:26","slug":"pakistani-islamist-blamed-2008-attacks-mumbai-released-house-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/pakistani-islamist-blamed-2008-attacks-mumbai-released-house-arrest.html","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani Islamist blamed for 2008 attacks in Mumbai released from house arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Pakistani Islamist blamed for 2008 attacks in Mumbai released from house arrest<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Pakistani Islamist blamed for 2008 attacks in Mumbai released from house arrest:- Pakistani Islamist Hafiz Saeed, seen as the mastermind of a 2008 militant assault in the Indian financial hub of Mumbai in which 166 people were killed, has been released from house arrest, his religious charity said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Saeed has been under house arrest since January after living freely in Pakistan for many years, a sore point in Pakistan\u2019s relationship with the United States and neighbor India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cHe is free, we are happy. Thank God there is no more restriction,\u201d Nadeem Awan, a spokesman for Islamist charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD), told Reuters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">A court on Wednesday ordered an end to his house arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Saeed has repeatedly denied involvement in the Mumbai attacks in which 10 gunmen attacked targets in India\u2019s largest city, including two luxury hotels, a Jewish center and a train station in a rampage that lasted several days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The violence brought nuclear-armed neighbors Pakistan and India to the brink of war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Habibullah Salafi, another JuD official, said supporters were arriving at Saeed\u2019s house to celebrate ahead of Friday prayers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cToday, he will lead Friday prayers at All Qadsia,\u201d Salafi added, referring to the headquarters of the JuD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The United States had offered a $10 million bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Saeed, who heads the JuD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The United States says the JUD is a front for the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-pakistan-militants-india\/pakistani-islamist-blamed-for-2008-attacks-in-mumbai-released-from-house-arrest-idUSKBN1DO0DP?il=0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/pakistani-islamist-blamed-2008-attacks-mumbai-released-house-arrest.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani Islamist blamed for 2008 attacks in Mumbai released from house arrest Pakistani Islamist blamed for 2008 attacks in Mumbai released from house arrest:- Pakistani Islamist Hafiz Saeed, seen as the mastermind of a 2008 militant assault in the Indian financial hub of Mumbai in which 166 people were killed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5470],"tags":[104265,104266,104267,104263,3299],"class_list":["post-53172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-habibullah-salafi","tag-hafiz-saeed","tag-nadeem-awan","tag-pakistani-islamist-blamed-for-2008-attacks-in-mumbai-released-from-house-arrest","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}