It sounds like a plot line out of Homeland. One of the main suspects
alleged to be behind the Mumbai terrorist attacks of 2008 which killed more
than 160 people, is said to be living a life of luxury in a Pakistan prison,
with internet and mobile phone access, and dozens of visitors popping in and
out every day, without anyone bothering to check who they are.
Zaki-ur-Rehman
Lakhvi is being held with six of his comrades at the Adyala Jail in Rawalpindi.
After being named by Indian officials, he was arrested at what was said to be a
training camp for the militant, some would say terrorist, group
Lashkar-e-Taiba.
In
2014, after doubts were raised over the Indian evidence, he was released on
bail – embarrassingly, barely a day after the worst terrorist outrage in
Pakistan’s history when Islamic fanatics murdered 145 people, including 132
children, at a school in Peshawar. The Pakistan military and civilian
authorities had responded by calling for a crackdown on ‘all shades of
terrorism’.
India
protested, while the US and China are also said to have put on pressure, and
the Pakistan government detained Lakhvi again under the Maintenance of Public
Order law. But if the authorities believe he is a threat, the ‘anything
goes’ prison regime seems an odd way of trying to protect Pakistanis.
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