26/11 Mumbai terror attack
mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi has again been detained today after an
anti-terrorism court granted him bail yesterday. The man has been kept behind
the bars under Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) act, a leading Pakistan
newspaper has said.
The decision comes after the
Pakistan government decided to appeal against the bail in a higher court.
"We are going to challenge
the bail order of Lakhvi. We will go to Islamabad High Court on Monday to file
the application" government prosecutor Chaudhry Azhar told Reuters.
This decision of the Pakistan
government comes after the bail incident caused a huge uproar in India. And the
India's Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh urged the Pakistan govt. to get the
bail cancelled.
India's foreign ministry's
spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said, "Despite repeated assurances that have
been received, we have seen both the prosecution of the seven accused in the
Anti-Terror Court in Islamabad, as also the investigation by the authorities
into the larger conspiracy surrounding the Mumbai attack case, proceeding at a
glacial pace."
"We have, therefore,
forthwith communicated to Pakistan through diplomatic channels our strong
concerns on this matter and the sentiments across the spectrum of Indian
society that that this will make a mockery of Pakistan's commitment to fight
terror groups without hesitation and without making distinctions,"
Akbaruddin further said.
Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi is among the
seven Pakistani nationals accused plotting the terror attack that rendered 166
people dead and several injured.
Zakiur Rehman would not be able
to leave the prison until the higher court upholds the bail as a justifiable
thing.
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