The Islamabad High Court today set a two-month deadline for the trial court to conclude the 2008 Mumbai attack case, warning that it would accede to Pakistan government's plea to cancel the bail granted to LeT operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman if it failed to do so.

A two-member bench of IHC headed by Justice Noorul Haq Qureshi gave the "two-month deadline" to the Islamabad Anti-Terrorism Court to conclude the case against Mumbai attack mastermind Lakhvi and six others going on since 2009.

The bench was hearing the government's plea for cancellation of 55-year-old Lakhvi's bail. fter the arguments from the prosecution and defence lawyers, the bench said: "This court gives two months to the trial court to conclude the Mumbai case and adjourns this case (a plea to cancellation of bail to Lakhvi) till then."

Prosecution chief Chaudhry Azhar said after the hearing that the judge also said in his order that the court would cancel Lakhvi's bail if there was a delay on the part of his lawyers.