Petition challenging Saeed's detention filed in Pak court

A petition challenging the house arrest of Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed was filed today in a Pakistani court by a lawyer who claimed that the JuD chief was detained illegally for keeping the Kashmir issue alive.

Advocate Sarfraz Hussain filed the petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC). He said the JuD chief has been put under "illegal" detention by manoeuvring the anti-terrorism law.

"The government has detained Mr Saeed citing a resolution of the United Nations Security Council as he made the Kashmir issue alive. But the UNSC's resolution for plebiscite in the Indian-held Kashmir has not yet been implemented. The government has detained him at the behest of the foreign masters," he said.

The petitioner prayed to the court to accept the petition instantly and "set Mr Saeed free in the larger interest of justice, equity and fair play to meet the ends of justice".

An official of Jamaat-Ud-Dawa (JuD) told

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