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Summary Pakistan questioned Tuesday on what basis US slapped a $10m bounty on Hafiz Saeed.
We have not received any official communication in this regard, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said.The reward for Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was announced by US Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman in India on Monday.I cannot comment on it until there is official verification. Let us say that if it is confirmed, then we can ask them on what basis the bounty has been announced, the Pakistani minister said.Saeed lives openly in Pakistan and has spent recent months making a number of high-profile appearances at demonstrations calling on the government not to reopen NATO supply lines to Afghanistan, which have been closed since November.His most recent appearance was at a rally outside parliament in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on March 27.The bounty could complicate recent efforts made by Pakistan and the United States towards repairing their fragile war on terror alliance, which nearly ruptured over US air strikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on November 24.--AFP
