The decision to announce a USD 10 million bounty on Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed is primarily due to his key role in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack, the US said today, asserting that Washington wants to see him brought to justice. 'It (bounty) has everything to do with Mumbai and his brazen flouting of the justice system,' State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters here. 'It (bounty) is because we want to see him brought to justice,' she asserted, and referred to the fact that Hafiz Saeed has been charged in India. She rejected a statement of Saeed in a television interview that the US announced the bounty on his head because he is opposing the reopening of the crucial NATO supply route to Afghanistan, which was shut down by Pakistan on November last year when 24 of its soldiers were killed in a NATO cross border fire.
Bounty on Hafiz Saeed for Mumbai terror attack - US....