Lakhvi to stay in Pakistan jail for one more month by PTI    |    January 19, 2015 , 9 : 21 pm GST     Share

Lahore/Dhaka: Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, will remain in jail for another month after the Pakistan government extended his detention under a public security law amid a row with India over granting him bail in the 26/11 case. As the Lahore High Court yesterday resumed the hearing in Lakhvi's detention case, Islamabad Deputy Commissioner Mujahid Sher Dil told the court that the government had extended the detention of Mumbai attack prime accused for another 30 days under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO). 54-year-old Lakhvi's counsel Raja Rizwan Abbasi protested the government's decision to detain his client for another one month. The court adjourned the hearing till January 26. On December 18, the trial court (Anti Terrorism Court Islamabad) granted bail to Lakhvi, who was involved in planning, financing and executing the attack in November 2008. The Pakistan government detained him next day under the MPO. However, Islamabad High Court judge Noorul Haq Qureshi suspended Lakhvi's detention on "weak legal ground", evoking a strong reaction from India. Bangladesh arrests Meanwhile, Bangladesh arrested four alleged IS militants, who were trained in Pakistan, during  overnight raids in the Jatrabari and Khilkhet areas of the capital, Dhaka. "Yes, the IS coordinator and the three others have been arrested," a police spokesman told PTI. The IS coordinator has been identified as Shakhawatul Kabir who is also the regional commander of the militant group in Bangladesh. The other three men arrested are Anwar Hossain, Rabiul Islam and Nazrul Alam. The police said the arrested militants have confessed that they are members of IS and had plans to create an anarchic situation attacking Bangladesh's key installations with IS financial and weaponry support. "The aim of the attacks was to establish a caliphate state in Bangladesh," deputy commissioner Sheikh Nazmul Alam told reporters. "They all confessed their links to the IS (while) one of them Sakhawatul Kabir was found to the networks coordinator in Bangladesh," Alam said.