Islamabad: Pakistan may release the detained leaders of the proscribed Jamaat-ud-Dawa if India does not provide evidence of their involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks, a top police official has said.
The federal government asked the government of Punjab province to detain seven top Jamaat-ud-Dawa leaders. Of them, five were put under preventive detention while the others would be netted shortly, provincial police chief Shaukat Javed said.
The two leaders, who were yet to be detained had gone to Saudi Arabia to perform Haj, he said.
However, he told The News daily that detained leaders would be freed if no evidence of their involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks is received from India.
Pakistan launched a crackdown on the Jamaat after the group was declared a front for the LeT by a UN Security Council panel, which also put four LeT leaders, including founder Hafiz Mohammed Saeed and suspected Mumbai attack mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, on a list of terrorists subject to sanctions.
Saeed and other top Jamaat leaders are among those who have been detained across Pakistan since the clampdown began on December 11.
Javed also said all schools and colleges run by the Jamaat would be allowed to function normally but not under the control of the banned group. They would work under the supervision of other bodies to be formed by provincial governments so that students did not suffer, he said.
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