Pakistan will take action against Hafiz saeed : Khar

Islamabad: Pakistan will take action against LeT founder Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the Mumbai attacks if India provides evidence against him that stands in court, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said on Saturday.

Saeed, who now heads the Jamaat-ud-Dawah, was placed under house arrest for less than six months after the UN Security Council declared the JuD a front for the LeT in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks in November 2008.

During the interview, Khar said that the “environment with India became very bad” after the Mumbai terror attacks. “We passed through a difficult phase,” she acknowledged. However, the Pakistan government had “improved that environment in a massive way,” Khar said.

“We tried to build trust. We made a policy decision, which no one had made in 40 years, to begin moving on the track of trade normalisation.”