India has asked Pakistan to extradite Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed, the 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind and a United Nations-proscribed terrorist, who is wanted by Indian probe agencies in a number of terror cases.
India also took note of reports of Saeed's son Talha Saeed standing for elections in Pakistan and said the "mainstreaming" of radical terrorist outfits in that country is nothing new and that it has been part of its state policy for a long time. Talha Saeed is considered number two in the LeT hierarchy with his father being at the helm of the terror outfit.
Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said the request for extraditing Hafiz Saeed along with certain documents was recently sent to Islamabad.
