The suspected mastermind behind the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks has been released on bail from a Pakistani jail.<br /><br /> Officials at the prison confirmed the news that Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi had been freed pending trial. He had been granted bail in December. However, a public order continuing his detention was declared void by Pakistan’s High Court on Friday.<br /><br /> India’s Home Minister had called the move ‘unfortunate and disappointing’. <br /><br /> Lakhvi was one of seven suspects in the Mumbai attacks which killed 166 people and left relations between the nuclear-armed neighbours strained. The Lashkar-e-Taiba group was blamed for the attack, and Lakhvi is accused of leading the militants. He was arrested in 2009 and has been in detention since then.<br /><br /> India has repeatedly called on Islamabad to more actively pursue the case. Pakistan had faced increasing pressure to crackdown on terrorism following a Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar in December, which left more than 140 people dead.
