The United States on Wednesday commended Pakistan’s jailing of this alleged mastermind of this 2008 Mumbai assault, a measure sought by Washington in addition to India.

The certainty”of Hafiz Saeed and his partner is a significant step ahead — equally toward holding LeT liable for the crimes, and also for Pakistan in fulfilling its international commitments to fight terrorist funding,” tweeted Alice Wells, the top US diplomat for South Asia.

She had been speaking to Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group that both Washington and New Delhi accounts accountable for its siege of the Indian financial capital that murdered 166 individuals.

LeT is the militant wing of this Jamaat-ud-Dawa Islamist charity headed by Saeed.

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