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Don't think of friendship with India: Hafiz Saeed warns Pak PM

PTI | By, Lahore
Jul 21, 2015 08:00 PM IST

Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief (JuD) and 26/11 Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed on Tuesday warned Pakistn Prime Minister against extending a hand of friendship to India under pressure from the international community and without taking on board the Kashmiri people.

Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief (JuD) and 26/11 Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed on Tuesday warned Pakistn Prime Minister against extending a hand of friendship to India under pressure from the international community and without taking on board the Kashmiri people.

"Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif should not think about one-sided friendship with India. Any such step will hurt the Kashmiris," Saeed said.

The Pakistani government should not hold talks with India without taking the Kashmiri people on board, he said.

"Pakistan must not come under pressure from the international community over the Kashmir issue and stick to its principled stance," he said in a statement.

The warning by Saeed came after a meeting between prime ministers of India and Pakistan in the Russian city of Ufa on the sidelines of the SCO Summit on July 10, where the two leaders decided to revive the stalled dialogue process and expedite the trial of the Mumbai attack case.

The founder of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group, which carried out the audacious 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, advised the Sharif government to better become an "advocate" of Kashmiri people instead of extending a hand of friendship to India.

Saeed, who has a $10 million US government bounty against him, is the chief of JuD - a terror outfit listed by the UN but operates freely across Pakistan.

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