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Pakistan to challenge bail for Mumbai terrorist
A Pakistani government prosecutor said Friday he will challenge a court order granting bail to the alleged mastermind of the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, which sparked strong condemnation from India
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Pakistani government prosecutor said Friday he will challenge a court order granting bail to the alleged mastermind of the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, which sparked strong condemnation from India.
Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi is accused of planning the 60-hour siege on India's commercial capital that left 166 people dead and was blamed on the banned Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
A judge in an Islamabad anti-terror court granted Lakhvi bail on Thursday, prompting anger in neighboring India which urged the Pakistani government to appeal.
'I am completing all the legal formalities and then I will challenge this order in Islamabad on Monday,' government prosecutor Mohammad Azhar Chaudhry told AFP.
Relations between the two nuclear-armed rivals worsened dramatically after the carnage, in which 10 gunmen attacked luxury hotels, a popular cafe, a train station and a Jewish center.
Lakhvi remained in the high security Adyala prison in garrison city of Rawalpindi even after Thursday's court ruling.
