March 6, 2014 | Quote

Terrorist Hafiz Saeed Thanks ‘Brave Man’ Who Offered Three Son to Fight in Jihad

A Pakistani man has “sacrificed” his three sons to a life devoted to Jihad, in a publicly-held worker's convention about 80 km away from Lahore.

Abu Haider handed over his sons to Hafiz Saeed, chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JUD), a parent organisation of banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET). The organization was implicated in the 2008 attacks on Mumbai in India, which claimed 166 lives.

LET is one of the largest and most active terrorist groups in Asia, and is suspected to be operating mainly from Pakistan.

Pakistan is accused of being inconsistent and arbitrary in its approach to fighting terrorism. Its authorities crack down on some, while giving a free hand to others. The Long War Journal reported that Pakistan had twice placed Saeed under house arrest since 2001, but had let him go under suspicious circumstances.

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