TV9 News: 26/11 Attacks Mastermind Lakhvi's Luxury Life in Jail: Internet, Mobiles, TV and Visitors......,
ISLAMABAD: Despite government's tall claims that it is cracking down on militants of all shades and colours, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the main accused in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case, has been living a comfortable life in prison in Pakistan's garrison city of Rawalpindi and daily meets about 100 people who visit him in jail.
A report published by BBC Urdu revealed that Lakhvi, 54, and his six comrades have several rooms at their disposal next to the jailer's office at Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail and no special permission is required to meet the key suspects of Mumbai carnage.
"They have the jailer's permission to have a television, mobile phones and access to internet, as well as dozens of visitors a day," a jail official reportedly said.
"Lakhvi can receive any number of guests, any time of day or night, seven days a week," he said and added: "On an average, he receives about 100 visitors every day; they are escorted to his private quarters where they can meet him without the watch of jail guards, and can stay for as long as they like."
The official further said that even though, since his arrest, the day to day affairs of LeT are being looked after by an acting chief known as Ahmed, Lakhvi is still the group's operation chief.
Lakhvi was arrested in December 2008 from Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)'s headquarters in Muzaffarabad and the case against him registered in February 2009. The six other accused in the Mumbai attacks case are Hammad Amin Sadiq, Shahid Jamil Riaz, Younas Anjum, Jamil Ahmed, Mazhar Iqbal and Abdul Majid.
The evidence against Lakhvi included a confession by Ajmal Kasab, the lone fidayeen survivor of the Mumbai attack, and some satellite phone data the Indians recovered from a boat that the attackers had hijacked en route from the Pakistani coastal city of Karachi to Mumbai.
Indian officials at the time had said Lakhvi had spoken to the attackers during their journey, and may have been in touch during the attacks. They said Kasab identified Lakhvi and said he had helped indoctrinating all the attackers.
Lakhvi hit headlines again last December when an anti-terrorism court trying him for the Mumbai killings ordered his release on bail, a day after the horrific Peshawar Army Public School massacre that left 148 people, including 132 children, dead. The ill-timed decision was met with outrage from the international community, especially India, and government detained him again under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) law.
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