Pakistan should hand over Hafiz Saeed just like US sent Rana: India
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Tel Aviv: India's Ambassador to Israel, J P Singh, said that Pakistan should hand over key terrorists Hafiz Saeed, Sajid Mir, and Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi to India, just like the US did with one of the masterminds of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, Tahawwur Hussain Rana. Contending that terrorism is a global menace, Singh also called for the formation of an international coalition against it, PTI reported.
In an interview with Israeli TV channel i24 on Monday, Singh stressed that India's Operation Sindoor against Pakistan is "paused" and "not over". Narrating the incidents leading up to India's offensive, Sing said that the operation was against terror groups in Pakistan.
"The terrorists killed people based on their religion. They asked people about their religion before killing them, and 26 innocent lives were lost," the Indian ambassador said on the Pahalgam attack of April 22.
"India's operation was against terror groups and their infrastructure, to which Pakistan responded by attacking India's military installations", he emphasised.
Citing a long list of terror attacks in India that originated from Pakistan, Singh said that the "root cause is these two groups — Jaish-e-Muhammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba".
The leaders of Lashkar-e-Taiba, which was behind the Mumbai attack, in which several Jews were also killed, continue to roam free, he noted.
"They need to do a very simple thing - when the preamble includes goodwill and friendship, they just need to hand over these terrorists to us," the envoy stressed.
Pointing out that the United States recently extradited Rana, who was involved in the Mumbai attack, the diplomat, who has also served in Pakistan in the past, said that Islamabad could also do the same.