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Pakistani court orders release of
LeT ex-chief

He was placed under house arrest in Lahore on October 31 after five months in custody. But the Lahore high court declared his detention unlawful and ordered his release.

The provincial Punjab government had pushed for his continued detention, pleading before the court that the outfit was continuing with terrorist operations.

In a bid to crackdown on fundamentalism, President Pervez Musharraf had banned the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and four other outfits in January.

Saeed was detained in May shortly after the massacre of 33 people in Jammu.

He was taken into custody under the Maintenance of Public Order, which allows for people to be detained on suspicion of planning to create unrest.

Agencies

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