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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Pakistan orders release of cleric linked to Mumbai attacks AFP - Wednesday, June 3 LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) - - A Pakistan court Tuesday ordered the release of the head of a charity blacklisted in the West as a terror group and linked by India to the deadly Mumbai attacks, hiking tensions in the region. ADVERTISEMENT Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, head of Jamaat-ud-Dawa and founder of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group accused by India and Washington of killing 166 people in the Indian financial capital last year, has been under house arrest. The order, announced by a lawyer, sparked swift reprimand from nuclear rival India and was likely to ruffle relations with the United States, which has made rooting out Islamist extremism in Pakistan its key foreign policy. "The arrest violated the constitution, therefore Hafiz Saeed and his colleagues are being released," lawyer A.K Dogar told reporters after three judges presided over a session at the high court in the eastern city of Lahore. Pakistan put Hafiz and three of his co-leaders under house arrest in early December and publicly shut offices of the charity after the UN Security Council blacklisted the organisation as a terror group. Rana Sanaullah, law minister in Punjab province, told AFP that although the government respected the court's decision, it may launch a challenge. "There are very strong chances that the government may challenge the decision on Hafiz Saeed in order to safeguard national interest," he said. "Right now we are waiting for a copy of the detailed judgment," he added. The United States also sees the charity as a terror group and a front for LeT, and Pakistan is under huge Western pressure to round up Dawa members. Saeed reportedly abandoned LeT when it was outlawed in Pakistan after India accused the group of being behind a 2001 attack on the Indian parliament which pushed the nuclear rivals to the brink of war. The group, whose name means "army of the pious," was established in 1989 to fight Indian rule in Kashmir and has past links to both Pakistani intelligence services and Al-Qaeda. India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars over the fate of disputed territory in Kashmir and New Delhi swiftly stated its disappointment at the court's decision. "We are unhappy that Pakistan has not shown the degree of seriousness and commitment it should have to bring to justice the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks," Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters. Pakistan described the Indian comments as "misplaced". "It is best not to comment on a court decision," a foreign ministry statement said Tuesday. It added, "the government of Pakistan is well aware of its obligations under national and international laws." "Polemics and unfounded insinuations cannot advance the cause of justice in civilized society," the statement said, adding the legal processes could not and must not be interfered with. Dawa, which is one of Pakistan's biggest charities and known across the country for its relief work after the 2005 earthquake in Kashmir, denies all terror accusations and welcomed Tuesday's developments. "Hafiz Saeed is not a terrorist. Dawa is not a terrorist organisation and the release order is good news for the party," said Yahya Mujahid, a spokesman. "We hope the authorities will now withdraw police guards deputed outside his residence... He can now move freely, meet his family and friends and resume the relief work of his party," the spokesman added. The 60-hour Mumbai siege, which focused on a string of high profile targets, soured a five-year peace process between the South Asian rivals. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, whose re-election was welcomed as an opportunity to rekindle peace talks with Pakistan, has warned that the process would remain on hold unless Pakistan prosecuted those behind the attacks. New Delhi has said it has "overwhelming evidence" that "official agencies" in Pakistan were involved in plotting and carrying out the attacks, an apparent reference to such Pakistani institutions as its spy agency and army. Pakistan denies the accusations but has admitted that at least part of the plot was planned on its territory. India has in the past accused Pakistan of not doing enough to dismantle training camps and infrastructure on its soil allegedly used for launching attacks across their common border. 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