New Delhi: The US will ask Pakistan to bring all perpetrators of the 26/11 terror attack, including Hafiz Saeed, to justice, US Ambassador Timothy J Roemer said on Wednesday.
"The US stands firmly with India against terrorism,” Roemer said.
"All people held in Pakistan in connection with the Mumbai attacks should be brought to justice," Roemer added when asked about the US stand on Pakistan's attitude towards Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the Mumbai attack.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan had let off the Jammat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief citing lack of evidence.
The court adjourned the hearing of Saeed indefinitely based on the admission from the Pakistani government officials, including Interior Minister Rehman Malik, that their government had no concrete evidence to prosecute the JuD chief.
Saeed was detained in the wake of the November attacks after a UN Security Council resolution put him on a list of people and organisations supporting al-Qaeda.
But in June this year, the Lahore High Court released him on grounds of insufficient evidence, prompting the Pakistan government to lodge an appeal with the Supreme Court for his re-arrest.
The Supreme Court adjourned a hearing this week without fixing any new date and Saeed's lawyer said it had been put off as the government's prosecutor was not prepared.
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