A Pakistani court has freed the alleged mastermind of the 2008 attacks on Mumbai that killed 166 people. Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, a senior commander of the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, was released on bail Thursday, officials say. "I don't know where he will go now," said his lawyer Malik Nasir Abbas. Lakhvi had been in prison since February 2009, when he and six others were charged in connection with the 60-hour assault on India's commercial capital in 2008. Lakhvi first received bail in the Mumbai attacks case in December, a few days after a devastating attack on a school in Peshawar left 150 dead. Under strong criticism from India and other countries, Pakistan detained him before he actually was released, under the Maintenance of Public Order Act. The Islamabad High Court later suspended his detention order, but the Supreme Court restored it. Prior to his release, India summoned Pakistan’s envoy in New Delhi, Abdul Basit, to protest the move. The Mumbai attackers targeted luxury hotels, a popular cafe, a train station and a Jewish center. The terror siege strained relations between India and Pakistan who have fought three wars since independence in 1947.
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