The international police agency Interpol has issued a “red notice” alert for Pakistani Islamist Hafiz Saeed who is wanted in India in connection with last November's terrorist attacks in Mumbai. India says Saeed, founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group, was the mastermind of the attacks in which 166 people were killed. Saeed was detained in Pakistan in December, after a UN Security Council resolution put him on a list of people and organizations supporting Al-Qaeda. But in June, a court released him on grounds of insufficient evidence, prompting the Pakistani government to lodge an appeal with the Supreme Court for his re-arrest. That case is pending. India has been insisting that Pakistan act against Saeed and other members of the LeT, which is banned in Pakistan. Pakistan says it has insufficient evidence against him. Interpol says a red notice is not an international arrest warrant but is issued after authorities in a country issue a warrant to help with the identification or location of a suspect with a view to their arrest or extradition. Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna said the world had to take notice of the Interpol alert against Saeed. “I think the world should take note of these developments and then you know they will have to come to their own conclusions,” Krishna told reporters Wednesday.
