The Indian Government has sought the extradition of Hafiz Saeed, a mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and India's most wanted terrorist. In an official notification, the Pakistan Foreign Ministry was requested to initiate the legal process of his extradition, reported the Islamabad Post.
However, the Pakistan Foreign Ministry is yet to confirm the receipt of any such notice. India-Pakistan ties have often gone through rough diplomatic patches following a series of terror attack cases.
Mumbai's 26/11 attack took away the lives of at least 175 people and left over 300 injured. Americans among Indian nationals were killed in terrorist attacks at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, the Oberoi Trident, the Taj Palace and Tower, the Leopold Cafe and the Cama Hospital.
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Hafiz Saeed a key orchestrator of the attack and a part of the terrorist outfit, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) is also a wanted terrorist in the United States with a USD 10 million reward.
Earlier, Pakistan's interior minister accused India of being involved in a bombing in 2021 near Hafiz Saeed's house. A suicide bomber rammed a car into a police checkpoint just outside Saeed's house, killing four people in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore in 2021, however, no one from his family was hurt.
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"We have strong evidence that India was involved in this attack. Our forces have all the evidence that they funded it," Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah told a news conference in Islamabad, reported Reuters.
Hafiz Saeed Saeed has denied any links with terrorism, including the 26/11 attack.
He was arrested in Pakistan in 2019 in a terror funding case and is currently serving a 31-year jail term.
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