Awaran quake: India, US hampering relief says Hafiz Saeed

Saeed has a $10 million US government bounty on his head.

ISLAMABAD: Hafiz Mohammad Saeed  has accused the US and India of trying to hamper efforts to help victims of Pakistan’s earthquake. Saeed, who has a $10 million US government bounty on his head, said joint US-Indian efforts to block funds for his Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) organisation were aimed at stopping its relief work in Baluchistan, hit by a powerful quake last month. JuD is seen as a front for Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT), which Saeed founded and which investigators blame for the three-day carnage in Mumbai that killed 166 people. “Their aim is to hamper the relief work of our charity foundation in the earthquake hit Balochistan,” Saeed told reporters.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 15^th, 2013.