KABUL: Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday called out onPakistan Prime Minister’s bluff that there is no case against 2008 Mumbaimastermind Hafiz Saeed.
“Oh! There is plenty of evidence. Everyone knows that,” said Karzai.
The former Afghan president is in New Delhi to attend the 2018 RaisinaDialogue.
In an interview to a TV channel on Tuesday, Pakistan PM Shahid KhaqanAbbasi publicly supported Saeed, the Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) chief andLashkar-e-Toiba co-founder.
Referring to him, Abbasi said that there is no case in the country againstthe JuD chief. His statements were severely critised by the internationalcommunity.
Saeed, a globally designated terrorist with a bounty of $10 million on hishead, was released from house arrest by a Pakistan court in 2017.
His release was met with global outcry. The United States went ahead andfroze $ 255 million military aid, claiming that Pakistan is shelteringterrorists.
Reacting to Trump administration’s decision to suspend military aid toPakistan Karzai said, “They should do all they can, through political,economical and other means to bring Pakistan, to recognition that the useof extremism as a tool is no longer tolerated by the world.”
Former US diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad also described Abbasi’s statement onHafiz Saeed as “alarming”
“Very alarming statement by Pakistan PM because Hafiz Saeed is aterrorist,” said Khalilzad.