Pakistani court grants bail to alleged mastermind of Mumbai attacks
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| Publication Date | 18 December 2014 |
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December 18, 2014
An antiterrorism court in Islamabad has granted bail to a man accused of masterminding the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India.
The court on December 18 directed Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi to pay surety bonds worth about $5,000 before his release on bail.
The decision comes just 48 hours after Pakistani Taliban massacred 141 people at an army-run school in the city of Peshawar, promoting pledges from the government to launch a crackdown on terrorists.
Lakhvi, thought to have been the operational chief of the banned Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, is one of seven people charged with planning and helping to carry out the Mumbai attacks.
The 60-hour siege on India's economic capital left 166 people dead and was blamed on Lashkar-e-Taiba
The six others facing trial are Hammad Amin Sadiq, Shahid Jamil Riaz, Younas Anjum, Jamil Ahmed, Mazhar Iqbal and Abdul Majid.
Based on reporting by AFP and "Dawn"
Link to original story on RFE/RL website
