14 July,2009 02:22 PM IST | | PTI
The Punjab government on Tuesday informed Pakistan's Supreme Court that it wanted to withdraw its petition challenging a lower court's order that released Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed from detention, saying it did not have adequate evidence against him.
The provincial government's surprise move comes hours before a meeting between the Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan in Egypt to review the progress made by Islamabad to bring to book perpetrators of Mumbai attacks.
When two petitions challenging Saeed's release from house arrest were taken up by a three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, Punjab Advocate General Muhammad Raza Farooq informed the court that the provincial government wanted to withdraw its appeal.
Farooq told the court that the Punjab government did not have adequate evidence against Saeed. He also said federal authorities had not shared any proof against the JuD leader with the Punjab government.
