Hafiz Saeed's expected release should not come as a surprise. What can the courts in Pakistan do, if their government did not pursue the matter seriously? Lakhvi, another key player who orchestrated the Mumbai attacks, was given all facilities in jail, including conjugal rights.
One needs to be reminded of the response of the then Foreign Secretary of Pakistan Mr. Salman Bashir, to our dossiers submitted. He trashed them as "piece of literature".
American and Israeli citizens were also targeted in those attacks, and now it is high time that we join efforts with Israel and US to isolate Pakistan globally on the issue of terrorism. Wonder, how long can Pakistan's chief patron China, keep shielding Pak based terrorists at the UNSC?
India needs to play a key back channel diplomacy in ensuring the relations between US and Iran are back on track. If that is accomplished, then India could facilitate the supplies to US troops in Afghanistan via Chabahar port in Iran, thereby effectively denting a key advantage which Pakistan has vis-a-vis US now, and that is, of providing routes via its soil for supplies to US troops in Afghanistan.
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