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New Delhi, November 25
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi after Pakistan released 2008 Mumbai attacks mastermind and Lashkar-e-Toiba chief Hafiz Saeed from house arrest saying that the former's 'Hugplomacy' with US President Donald Trump failed.
Gandhi said, "More hugs were urgently needed between PM Modi and Trump.”
“Narendrabhai, ??? ???? ???. Terror mastermind is free. President Trump just delinked Pak military funding from LeT. Hugplomacy fail. More hugs urgently needed (sic)," he tweeted.
The JuD leader, who has a US$ 10 million American bounty on his head for terror activities, walked free after his 10-month detention as the Pakistan government decided against detaining him further in any other case, in a setback to India's efforts to bring to justice the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attack.
In his first address after being released, Saeed accused India and the US for his detention and raked up the Kashmir issue.
In May 2008, the US Department of the Treasury had designated Saeed as a global terrorist.
Saeed was also individually designated by the UN under the Security Council Resolution 1267 in December, 2008 following the November 2008 Mumbai attack in which 166 people, including six American citizens, were killed, Nauert said.
LeT and several of its front organisations, leaders, and operatives remain under both state department and Treasury department sanctions.
Since 2012, the US has offered a US$ 10 million reward for information that brings Saeed to justice, she said. Agencies
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