In a move which questions Pakistan's will to stop terror and bloodshed across South Asia, the former head of Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Tayiba, Hafez Mohammad Saeed was freed from detention amid reasons that this was Pakistan's internal matters should not be influenced by foreign pressure.
Supporters chanted "God is great" after Saeed left a guesthouse where he had been held in Sehkhupura, near Lahore, said Yahya Mujahid, a spokesman for his controversial new Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa.
He was arrested a day before British authorities arrested more than 20 Britons allegedly involved in a plot to blow up transatlantic airliners, although Pakistan denied his arrest was connected.
Saeed abandoned the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, fighting to end Indian rule in Kashmir, in January 2002, shortly before it was banned by President Pervez Musharraf. He set up the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, regarded as the group's political wing.
The Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa are on the US watch list of terrorist organisations but Pakistan has refused to ban the latter group.
It’s clear that Lashkar-e-Tayiba is one of India's biggest security threats and Pakistan just continues to rant in the name of saying they are against terrorism, they are just playing a game. This is something that most people in India reckon as being integral to the political ideology of Pakistan - absolute lies and double standards. They have never stood up for what they have said and have continually abused the sense of trust that has been bestowed upon them. This bigger question now is to see how India would react in this changed equation with its old rival.
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