Hafiz Saeed, one of Pakistan’s most notorious militants, taunted the US for offering a $10m bounty for information leading to his arrest by appearing before journalists yesterday to claim the money for himself.
Tacitly underscoring his links to Pakistan’s security establishment, Mr Saeed, who is accused of masterminding the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people, addressed television crews and reporters at a hotel near the army headquarters in Rawalpindi a day after the US put a bounty on his head.
“I am here, I am visible. America should give that reward money to me,” Mr Saeed said. “I will be in Lahore tomorrow . . . America can contact me whenever it wants to.”