A court in Pakistan has granted bail to Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rahman Lakhvi, key accused of the ghastly Mumbai terror attacks facing trial in Pakistan. Lakhvi has been charged with planning, financing and executing the attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people in November 2008.
The news has come as shocker for India which the other day strongly condemned the massacre of children at an Army school in Peshawar. People on this side of the border joined Pakistanis in mourning the dead with schoolchildren across the country observing a two-minute silence in solidarity with their neighbour.
India has said it "cannot accept" that top Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, accused of plotting the 26/11 terror attack on Mumbai in 2008, is being released on bail.
"It will serve as a reassurance to terrorists who indulge in heinous crimes. Let us not forget that the financing of the attack was done in Pakistan," said Syed Akbaruddin, spokesman in the ministry of external affairs.
A Pakistani government prosecutor said on Friday he will challenge a court order granting bail to the alleged mastermind of the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai.
26/11 Mumbai attack plotter Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi was detained on Friday a day after a Pakistan court granted him bail, said a report. He has been detained under Maintenance of Public Order (MPO).
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