(Times-UK) Zahid Hussain - On Friday in Lahore, Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the Mumbai attacks, is neither in hiding nor in jail. The founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba is instead delivering a sermon to thousands of devotees at the Jamia al-Qadsia mosque - one of the biggest in the city. "God has promised to make Muslims a superpower if we follow the right path," Saeed told his followers. Timothy Roemer, the U.S. Ambassador in Delhi, backed Indian calls this week for Pakistan to bring Saeed and six other Mumbai suspects to justice, after India handed Pakistan a seventh dossier of evidence on the Mumbai attacks. Analysts say the problem lies with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, which backed Saeed when he founded Lashkar-e-Taiba in 1990 to fight Indian rule in Kashmir.
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