'Pakistan open to extraditing terrorists Hafiz, Azhar to India': Bilawal Bhutto

Pakistan’s erstwhile overseas curate Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that Islamabad would beryllium unfastened to extraditing individuals of concern, including panic accused, arsenic a goodwill motion to India, provided New Delhi is consenting to cooperate successful the process.Speaking to Al Jazeera, Bilawal, who besides heads the Pakistan People’s Party, said that specified a determination could beryllium portion of a “comprehensive dialogue” betwixt the 2 countries, wherever coercion is discussed arsenic a cardinal issue."As portion of a broad dialog with Pakistan, wherever coercion is 1 of the issues that we discuss, I americium definite Pakistan would not beryllium opposed to immoderate of these things," helium said, erstwhile asked whether figures similar Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) main Hafiz Saeed and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) laminitis Masood Azhar could beryllium handed implicit arsenic a motion of bully faith.

Bilawal clarified that cases presently prosecuted against these individuals were related to home offences, specified arsenic panic financing. "India is refusing to comply with definite basal elements that necessitate that condemnation to instrumentality place," Bilawal alleged, pointing to the request for Indian witnesses to attest successful Pakistani courts. "If India is consenting to beryllium cooperative successful that process, I americium definite determination volition beryllium nary hurdle successful extraditing immoderate idiosyncratic of concern", helium added.

However, India has repeatedly rejected Bhutto’s claim, asserting that it made aggregate efforts to cooperate with Islamabad aft the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, including the submission of implicit 1,000 dossiers containing credible grounds of Pakistan-based terrorists’ engagement successful the massacre, but Pakistan dragged the substance nether the pretext of paperworks without immoderate factual action.According to Pakistan’s National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta), some LeT and JeM are proscribed outfits.

Hafiz Saeed, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks mastermind, is presently serving a 33-year condemnation successful Pakistan for panic financing. Masood Azhar, a UN-designated planetary terrorist, has besides been banned by Nacta.Addressing questions astir Azhar’s whereabouts, Bilawal claimed, "It is our content that helium is successful Afghanistan," adding that Pakistan had truthful acold failed to find oregon apprehension him. “If and erstwhile the Indian authorities shares accusation that helium is connected Pakistani soil, we volition beryllium much than blessed to apprehension him,” helium further said.Dismissing allegations that Hafiz Saeed was free, helium said, “It is factually not close that Hafiz Saeed is simply a escaped man; helium is successful the custody of the Pakistani state.”Responding to India’s assertive posture connected terror, Bilawal called it a “new abnormal,” informing it could harm some nations. “This does not service the interests of Pakistan, and it does not service the interests of India,” helium said.A 2025 Global Terrorism Index ranked Pakistan arsenic the second-most terrorism-affected country, with a 45% emergence successful terror-related deaths, particularly adjacent the Afghanistan border. Bhutto has antecedently insisted that Pakistan met the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) standards, citing convictions and seizures of implicit 90 extremist-linked institutions.