{"id":284833,"date":"2018-01-19T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T06:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=284833"},"modified":"2018-01-19T12:03:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T06:33:08","slug":"saeed-should-be-prosecuted-to-fullest-extent-of-law-us-tells-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/saeed-should-be-prosecuted-to-fullest-extent-of-law-us-tells-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Saeed should be prosecuted to fullest extent of law, US tells Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hafeez.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-284834 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hafeez-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"hafeez\" width=\"376\" height=\"207\" data-id=\"284834\" \/><\/a>The United States\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1346001345\">on January 19\u00a0<\/span>made clear to Islamabad that Pakistan needs to prosecute terrorist Hafiz Saeed \u201cto the fullest extent of the law.\u201d The statement has come following the remark by Pakistan\u2019s Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi that \u201cthere is no case against 26\/11 Mumbai terror mastermind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">During an interview to Geo TV on January 16, Abbasi while referring to Saeed as \u2018sahib\u2019 or \u2018sir\u2019 said, \u201cThere is no case against Hafiz Saeed sahib in Pakistan. Only when there is a case, can there be action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Reacting sharply to Abbasi\u2019s comment, the US State Department spokesperson, Heather Nauert, said the US believed that Saeed should be prosecuted and they have told Pakistan as such.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe believe that he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. He is listed by the UNSC 1267, the Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee for targeted sanctions due to his affiliation with Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is a designated foreign terror organisation,\u201d said Nauert to media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States\u00a0on January 19\u00a0made clear to Islamabad that Pakistan needs to prosecute terrorist Hafiz Saeed \u201cto the fullest extent of the law.\u201d The statement has come following the remark by Pakistan\u2019s Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi that \u201cthere is no case against 26\/11 Mumbai terror mastermind.\u201d During an interview to Geo TV on January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":284834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,39,53],"tags":[296,297,48,298,299,50,300],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}