Pak top court rejects pleas challenging Saeed’s release

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan supreme court on Monday rejected on technical grounds two petitions by authorities against the release of JuD chief Hafiz Mohd Saeed, a key accused in the Mumbai attacks, from house arrest, prompting a top official to announce that the pleas would be filed again tomorrow after removing the ���flaws���.
The petitions, submitted on Saturday by the federal and Punjab governments, were rejected by the office of the supreme court registrar this afternoon due to technical flaws, sources said.
Deputy attorney general Shah Khawar said registrar had returned the petitions as they challenged only the release of Saeed and his close aide Col Nazir Ahmed on orders of the Lahore high court. The office of the registrar said two other JuD leaders, Amir Hamza and Mufti Abdur Rehman, who were originally party to the matter should also be included in petitions, Khawar said.
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