- US House Foreign Relations Committee chairman asks Pakistan to hand over Lakhvi to India or International Criminal Court
Criticising Pakistan for failure to contain extremist groups, an influential US senator Tuesday asked it to either hand over Mumbai attack alleged mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi to India or present him to the International Criminal Court in Hague for crimes against humanity.
US House Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Ed Royce, who is leading a bipartisan congressional delegation, also said that “certain families in Gulf states” are funding 600 Deobandi schools in Pakistan which was a major cause of concern.
Royce said Pakistan must bring to justice Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists involved in the 26/11 Mumbai attack case and wondered how Lakhvi is taking visitors instead of facing action.
“The same individual (Lakhvi) today is taking visitors and is not being brought to court of justice. What I called for is for Pakistan to turn that individual over to India or if Pakistan won’t do that which they should do, then turn him to International Criminal Court in Hague where he will be tried for crimes against humanity,” he told reporters in New Delhi.
Royce met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Rajnath Singh and discussed various issues, including threat of terrorism in the region.
