Pakistani politician Bilawal Bhutto’s remarks about being willing to locate, detain, and extradite terrorist leaders like Masood Azhar and Hafiz Saeed to India have sparked controversy. In a video posted on Sunday afternoon, Hafiz Talha Saeed, son of Hafiz Saeed, condemned Bhutto, calling him “not a true Muslim” and demanding an apology.

Talha Saeed is officially a politcian, but the son of terrorist Hafiz Saeed and Vice Emir of UN designated group Lashkar E Tayiba/ LeT.

Talha questioned Bhutto’s offer to hand over his father and urged Pakistan’s “patriotic media” to scrutinize Bhutto’s statement, accusing him and his Pakistan People’s Party of aligning with Western and Indian narratives that harm national security.

In an Al Jazeera interview last week, Bhutto claimed Pakistan does not know Masood Azhar’s whereabouts. Azhar, head of the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed, is wanted in India for attacks including the 2001 Parliament attack, 2011 Mumbai attacks, 2016 Pathankot attack, and 2019 Pulwama attack. He was released from Indian custody in 1999 in exchange for hostages from the hijacked Indian Airlines flight IC-814. Hafiz Saeed, leader of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba, is linked to the April 22 Pahalgam attack that killed 26 people, mostly civilians. Though reportedly under house arrest in Pakistan, his status is contested.

India has long accused Pakistan of allowing Azhar’s JeM and Saeed’s LeT to operate freely with support from Pakistan’s deep state, a claim Pakistan denies. Responding to a New York Times report suggesting Saeed is effectively free, Bhutto told Al Jazeera that Saeed is in custody, but Pakistan has been unable to apprehend Azhar. He added that Pakistan would act to arrest Azhar if India provides evidence of his presence on Pakistani soil.

Pakistan had something similar to United States, when American forces were searching Osama Bin laden in Afghanistan, while hiding the terrorist in Abbottabad, Pakistan.