India's Most Wanted: Pak's Political Hero

Bangalore: If reports are to be believed, India’s most wanted terrorist and the master brain behind the Mumbai terror attack, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed might soon flex his muscles in the political arena of Pakistan, quite freely and openly. Chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawah and the founder of the banned terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, Saeed has once again kept the guessing game alive by neither accepting nor denying rumors of his political ambitions.

Addressing a press conference in Karachi, Hafiz Saeed parried questions on his political future and declined to directly acknowledge if JuD would declare itself a political party and contest in the coming elections. Speculations are doing the rounds in Pakistan’s political pitch that the extremist leader would participate in the upcoming elections and would contest for the Punjab Assembly or the National Assembly.

The hardliner said it was a "misconception" to consider that the JuD was not a political party given the activities of the group varying from bringing together different parties to engaging in social programs and raising awareness on different issues are definitely political in nature.