Lahore: Just days after his organisation was declared a terror outfit by the US, Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed, who orchestrated the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, addressed a seminar at the Lahore High Court spewing venom on India and America.
This is the second time that Saeed, who is the founder of banned terror organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba, has addressed lawyers and others within the court premises this year. In May, Saeed, who roams around freely in Pakistan despite being a designated terrorist, was invited as chief guest at the Lahore High Court Bar Association, one of the premier bar associations in Pakistan.
At that time, the decision was opposed by a section of the lawyers. Saeed addressed the seminar at the Lahore High Court building organised by the Pakistan Justice Party. Tightening its noose around the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the US had last month added its affiliates, including the JuD to its list of designated terror organisations and slapped sanctions against two Pakistan-based LeT leaders.
The US State Department has amended Lashkar-e-Taiba’s designations to add its aliases: Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Al-Anfal Trust, Tehrik-e-Hurmat-e-Rasool and Tehrik-e-Tahafuz Qibla Awwal, an official statement had said.
On July 5, it was reported that Saeed was spotted barely 150 km from the Kutch border in Gujarat. The development had set alarm bells ringing in Gujarat and Rajasthan. A senior police official of the state had said that the police, the BSF, Army, Navy and the IAF increased surveillance along the border with Pakistan.
