Show progress in Samjhauta blast case: Pak to India

Islamabad, December 20

Sartaj Aziz, the Pakistan Prime Minister’s adviser on National Security and Foreign Affairs, said on Saturday that Zaki-ur Rahman Lakhvi, the alleged mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, has not been released and that India should also show progress over the trial into the Samjhauta Express blast.

Lakhvi has not been released and the government is reviewing a petition regarding his case, said Aziz in a statement. He also expressed hope that India would show significant progress regarding the Samjhauta Express trial.

The Samjhauta Express blast that took place in the Delhi-Lahore train in 2007 had left nearly 70 people, mostly Pakistanis, dead.

Aziz also said that security forces in Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to carry out coordinated operations along the 

Pak-Afghan border against terrorists. 

Aziz, who previously stated that the massacre by the Taliban in an army-run school in Peshawar that left over 140 people dead was “Pakistan’s 9/11”, said that the Afghan leadership has also assured the Pakistan Army of full cooperation in countering terrorism. — IANS