Tuesday, June 2, 2009   International Terrorism Monitor -- Paper
No. 531 B. Raman  A three-member bench of the Lahore High Court
held illegal on June 2, 2009, the house arrest of Prof. Hafiz
Mohammad Saeed, the Amir of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD), the
political wing of the Lashkar-e-ToIba (LET), and his associate
Col.(retd) Nazir Ahmed and ordered their release. The court has
not yet given the reasons for its order. These will be announced
later.  2. In the wake of the Mumbai terrorist strike of
November 26-29, 2008, carried out by 10 terrorists of the LET,
the Government of Pakistan took two actions. It ordered the
arrest of five members of the LET against whom specific evidence
of their involvement had been produced by the Government of
India. It was reported that the USA's Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) had also collected independence evidence
against them. A case against them has been registered for
investigation and prosecution and their judicial remand is being
extended from time to time by an Anti-