Earlier, Hafiz Saeed had blamed India and the US for his detention saying the Pakistani government had put him under house arrest under pressure from India and the US.
Saeed had moved the court seeking protection from arrest or action against Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) and Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) ahead of the visit of the monitoring team of the United Nations Security Council 1267 Sanctions Committee.
In his petition, Saeed alleged that the Pakistan government wants to arrest him at the behest of India and the US.
The monitoring team of the UNSC 1267 Sanctions Committee will visiting Islamabad this week for an assessment of Islamabad’s compliance with the world body’s sanctions regime.
The UN monitoring team’s visit is taking place amid increasing pressure on Pakistan from the US and India with respect to the inadequate implementation of the sanctions on Saeed and entities linked to him.
During an interview, Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi had said, "There is no case against Hafiz Saeed sahib in Pakistan. Only when there is a case can there be action."
Reacting strongly to the comments, State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said the US believes that Saeed should be prosecuted and they have told Pakistan as much.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed the 1,279- page chargesheet before a designated court in New Delhi and sought permission to continue its probe.
Interestingly, Saeed, the Jammat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief who conceived and executed many terror operations against India, claimed that he will launch a campaign against terrorism in Pakistan besides waging a war against suicide bombers.
Earlier in November, the Abbasi had claimed that India has provided "no evidence" against Saeed on the basis of which he can be prosecuted.
The report said that Saeed, one of the world’s most wanted terror suspects, who now heads the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) group in Pakistan, had toured British mosques in 1995 and his visit was recorded in a magazine published by the LeT at the
Pakistani newspaper's New Year calender is featuring Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed on it! A Pakistan-based journalist Omar R Quraishi tweeted a photo of the annual calender issued by the Urdu newspaper 'Khabrain'.
"We deny this information. Our ambassador in Pakistan is in Palestine and our position was declared by our official statement which we have published last week," Palestinian Foreign Ministry added.
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