{"id":33802,"date":"2018-10-30T14:29:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T08:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33802"},"modified":"2018-10-30T14:29:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T08:59:02","slug":"pak-court-frees-hafiz-saeedth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pak-court-frees-hafiz-saeedth\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak.court frees Hafiz Saeed(TH)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/hafiz-saeed-to-walk-free\/article20643331.ece\"><strong>Pak.court frees Hafiz Saeed<\/strong><\/a><strong>(TH)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saeed, a declared terrorist by the U.N., the U.S. and India for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, had been under house arrest since January 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Pakistani court has ordered the release of Hafiz Saeed, the chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and one of the alleged masterminds of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that killed more than 160 people<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pak government\u2019s stand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Government had requested to extend the detention citing that Saeed\u2019s release may trigger international sanctions against Pakistan<\/p>\n<p><strong>High Court\u2019s stand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Concept of justice cannot be brutalised and terrorised in the name of fight against terrorism<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saeed, who carries a bounty of $10 million announced by the U.S. for his role in terror activities, has been under house arrest since January 2017<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Extension of detention<\/strong>: Saeed\u2019s detention was extended four times since January when the government cracked down on the JuD and its charity arm Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pak.court frees Hafiz Saeed(TH) Context Saeed, a declared terrorist by the U.N., the U.S. and India for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, had been under house arrest since January 2017 What has happened? A Pakistani court has ordered the release of Hafiz Saeed, the chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and one of the alleged&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pak-court-frees-hafiz-saeedth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pak.court frees Hafiz Saeed(TH)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704890222},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}