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A Pakistani court has ordered the release of the leader of an Islamic charity suspected of being a front for a group accused of the Mumbai attacks.A Pakistani court has ordered the release of the leader of an Islamic charity suspected of being a front for a group accused of the Mumbai attacks.
A court ruled there was no reason to hold Jamaat-ud-Dawa founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed under house arrest.A court ruled there was no reason to hold Jamaat-ud-Dawa founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed under house arrest.
India accuses Jamaat-ud-Dawa of being a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group it says was behind the attacks. Mr Saeed is also a founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba.India accuses Jamaat-ud-Dawa of being a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group it says was behind the attacks. Mr Saeed is also a founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba.
The UN added Mr Saeed to a terrorist watch list after the Mumbai attacks.The UN added Mr Saeed to a terrorist watch list after the Mumbai attacks.
A spokesman for Jamaat-ud-Dawa told the BBC that they were always confident that Mr Saeed would be vindicated.
"Our stand is clear. We have nothing to do with militancy or militants," he said.
But even though the court had ordered his release, the spokesman advised caution as to exactly when and how this might happen.
"I don't think the government is going to let it go so easily, and even if they do release Hafiz Sahib, they can always re-arrest him on some other concocted charge," he said.
Mr Saeed's release is likely to alarm the United States and India.
This is not the first time that Mr Saeed has been placed under house arrest and subsequently released following militant attacks in India. Mr Saeed was briefly arrested in 2006 following attacks in India.
The BBC's Chris Morris in Islamabad says that India is likely to express its concern about Pakistan's commitment to tackling militancy. But, he adds, that Pakistan would point out that the decision to release Mr Saeed was made by an independent court.