Excerpt: Pak Army's Role In The 26/11 Attack - What I Saw As High Commissioner

June 2009, the Lahore High Court released Hafiz Saeed from preventive detention. Though the Government of Pakistan challenged this decision in the Supreme Court, it failed to make out an effective case, resulting in the apex court upholding the High Court judgment in May 2010, while also ordering the government to pay a small fine for the casual manner in which it had handled the case. Such decisions have been cited repeatedly by Hafiz Saeed and the Pakistani authorities to argue that no case was established against him in the Pakistani courts. However, the orders of the Lahore High Court and the Supreme Court were in respect of his release from preventive detention. The evidence given by India regarding his lead role in the Mumbai attack, including the reference to him in the confessional statement of Ajmal Kasab, has never been