Twelve years after the 26/11 attacks, Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD), the political and evangelical front of Pakistan-based banned Islamic terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) is holding special prayers for the 10 terrorists who carried out the terror attacks., reports Hindustan Times
LeT which planned one of the deadliest terror attack post 9/11 held an event in Sahiwal city in Punjab on Thursday (November 26) to commemorate the Mumbai massacre by asking its cadres to pay homage to the 10 jihadists.
Prayers were held in LeT/JuD mosques to remember the ten terrorists who carried out the 2008 strikes in Mumbai that killed 170 people.
It is to be remembered that Congress leader Digvijay Singh had participated in the release of a book which claimed that the 26/11 attacks was a conspiracy case of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
Ajmal Kasab was only one who survived the attack and was later hanged to death after due process of law on November 21, 2012.
The JuD is a non-state asset of Pakistan military and has also floated the JK United Youth Movement (JKYM), a political platform to provide support to separatist activities in Jammu and Kashmir.
On November 19, a Pakistani court sentenced Saeed and two close aides to ten years on two cases of terror financing, a decision seen as cosmetic to please the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). However, the cases in which Saeed was convicted had no connection to the Mumbai attack case.
Pakistan is in a serious economic and political crisis right now and western powers, Saudi Arabia, UAE and the FATF has been putting a lot of pressure on the Imran Khan Niazi government to crack down on terror groups and terror financing.
Most of the LeT leaders have only been arrested in appearance but are in protective-custody with many living in their own accommodations with the complete moment of freedom to operate and run the activities of the outfit, including fundraising.
In fact, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, who was one of the masterminds of the 26/11 attacks, fathered a child while being held on terror charges at the high-security Adiala jail in Rawalpindi.