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The Economic Times/ - News, Qua, 04 de Abril de 2012
CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Supreme Court)
No need for bounty, we are not hiding in
caves: Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
ISLAMABAD: Responding to the $10 million US
bounty on information leading to his arrest, the founder
of Lashkare-Taiba, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, on
Tuesday said America is frustrated with his protests
against resumption of Nato supplies, and it must
immediately vacate South Asia and avoid pleasing
India through "cheap strategies".
"There's no need of announcing bounties. We are not
hiding in caves. I think the US is frustrated with our
protests against the resumption of Nato supplies and
drone attacks," Hafiz Saeed told television channels.
"I believe the US has either very little knowledge and is
basing its decisions on wrong information provided by
India or it is just frustrated," he said, adding that
Americans are trying to please India by using cheap
strategies. "The US should immediately vacate the
subcontinent," Saeed said.
The US rewards for justice programme sponsored by
the state department had announced a cash reward of
$10 million for the 62-year-old Saeed on its website on
Monday . US undersecretary of state Wendy Sherman,
on a visit to India, also announced a $3 million bounty
on Abul Rehman Makki, Saeed's brother-in-law.
The bounty on Saeed is same as the one on Afghan
Taliban leader Mullah Omar, and second only to
al-Qaida number one Ayman al Zawahiri, who
succeeded Osama bin Laden after his liquidation in
Abbottabad in Pakistan in May last year.
Pakistan had put Saeed under house arrest a month
after the 2008 Mumbai attacks , but he was released in
2009. In 2010, the Pakistan Supreme Court upheld
his release on the grounds that there was insufficient
evidence to detain him.
The reward announcement comes at a time when
president Asif Ali Zardari is due to visit India.
Analysts believe that the US move is designed to
pressure Saeed and the Pakistan government. "Saeed
has been the key person organizing rallies against the
reopening of Nato supply lines through Pakistan. The
US wants to curtail his activities at a time when the
government is debating the reopening of supply lines
to Nato forces in Afghanistan," said Hasan Askari
Rizvi, a defence analyst.
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