Legal help to Hafiz Saeed will strengthen Indian allegations against Pakistan, admits lawyer

Any legal assistance to Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed in a case in the US would strengthen Indian claims against Pakistan, the Lahore High Court has been told.

LHC Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial postponed the hearing of petition moved by Hafiz Saeed for April 29.

Saeed has sought direction to the federal government to defend him in a US court which issued summons to him, former ISI chiefs and other officials on a lawsuit filed by the relatives of US nationals killed in Mumbai attacks, the Daily Times reports.

According to the report, on Friday, advocate Ahmer Bilal Soofi argued that the state could interfere only when a citizen is arrested in a foreign country. He said that in cases like Mumbai attacks, the government had no role to play.

Earlier, Soofi had said that the United Nations had unanimously passed a resolution against terrorism, and Pakistan being a member country was bound to implement its resolutions.

He said that India had filed a lawsuit in a US court to establish Pakistan’s link with al Qaeda, and providing legal assistance to Saeed at the government level would strengthen the allegations of India, the report added.