Posted on 12/22/2014 5:16:22 AM PST by Cronos
A Pakistani court granted bail to a terrorist accused of planning the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, drawing loud protests from India.
The suspect, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, is a senior commander with Laskar-e-Toiba, the group behind the blitz of attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai that left 166 people dead.
The slow pave of th trial has been a contniuing source of contention with India, which accuses te Pakistani authorities of tacitly supporting Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Mr. Lakhvi's lawyer, said his client had been granted a release on bond of $5000.
Indian officials protested the release and called for it to be immediately reversed. The indian ministry of External affairs said that it would serve as a reassurance to terrorists who perptrate heinous crime.
The significance of the bail hearing was heightened by the assault by the Pakistani Taliban on a school in Peshawar that killed 148 schoolchildren. The day after the attack, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif declared that >Pakistan would no longer distinguish between “good” and “bad” Taliban — an approach that drew frequent criticism from Indian and Western officials.
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Not a coincidence.
India should do as Isreal does. Put a bit on him and take him out. Send a message to the world that they too will take no crap. There is no hope our current admin would do such a thing, but maybe the future will be better.
Writing for the New York Slimes, Salman Masood shrills about a release, as if it is more important than, say, two dead police officers, or terrorists released from Gitmo by the Slimes’ golden child in DC.
Indian history is full of conquests by numerically inferior but war-like groups, especially the Islamic ones — from Arabs to Mughals.
In 50 years, either Al Qaeda South-Asia or IS will be ruling India. Just wait and see. To be fair, Europe will also be ruled by them.
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