Pakistaninfo-icon has stated that there is no case registered in the country against alleged 26/11 Mumbaiinfo-icon attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed and thus no action would be taken against him.

In an interviewinfo-icon with Pakistan's Geo TVinfo-icon, the country's prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said action can be taken against an individual only when there is a case against them.

"Action is taken when there is a case registered [against someone]," said Abbasi, according to the report, when asked about Saeed, the Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief, who was recently released from house arrest on the order of the Lahore high courtinfo-icon.