Why can't Pakistan hand over terrorists if we can do, the Indian envoy asks: 'Give us Hafeez Saeed, Lakhvi, Sajid Mir' | Today news
India’s ambassador to Israel JP Singh said Tuesday that Pakistan should hand over important terrorists such as Hafiz Saeed, Sajid Mir and Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, just as the US laid out one of the masterminds of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, Tahwaw Hussain Rana. “If the US can hand over these culprits, why can’t Pakistan hand over? They simply have to hand over Hafeez Saeed, Lakhvi, Sajid Mir and things will be over,” Singh said in an interview with the Israeli TV channel on Monday. The Indian Ambassador cites a long list of terrorist attacks in India that come from Pakistan and says that the ’cause these two groups are-Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba’. “The leaders of Lashkar-e-Taiba who were behind the Mumbai attacks in which several Jews were also killed, continued to go free,” he was cited by the news agency Ani. “They have to do a very simple thing – if the preamble includes goodwill and friendship, they just have to hand over these terrorists to us,” the envoy said. Singh also emphasized that India’s operation Sindoor is interrupted against Pakistan ‘and’ is not over ‘. When asked if the ceasefire was, and whether it was the ‘end of the case’ for India, Singh replied by saying that “the ceasefire is still being detained, but we have made it very clear that Operation Sindor is interrupting, it is not over yet.” Singh told the incidents that led to India’s offensive and said the operation was initially against terror groups in Pakistan. “The terrorists killed people on the basis of their religion. They asked people their religion before they killed them and 26 innocent lives were lost,” the Indian ambassador said he cited the Pahalgam attack of April 22. “The Indian operation was against terrorist groups and their infrastructure to which Pakistan responded by attacking the military installations of India,” he emphasized. He said: “The fight against terrorism will continue. We have set up a new normal and the new normal is that we will follow an offensive strategy. Wherever terrorists are, we must kill the terrorists and destroy their infrastructure. So it is not over yet, but if we speak, the ceasefire is still intact.”