Criticising Pakistan for failure to contain extremist groups, an influential US sSenator today asked it to either hand over Mumbai attack mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi to India or present him to the International criminal court in the Hague for crimes against humanity.

Chairman of the powerful US House Foreign Relations Committee Ed Royce also said "certain families in Gulf states" are funding 600 Deobandi schools in Pakistan which was a major cause of concern. Identifying terrorism as a major threat facing the region, Royce slammed ISI, saying there was a need to strengthen the civilian government while trying to dissuade the Pakistani spy agency from types of conduct it had been engaged in.

Without naming Lakhvi, Royce, who is leading a bipartisan congressional delegation, said Pakistan must bring to justice Lashkar-e-Tyaiba terrorists involved in the 26/11 Mumbai attack case and wondered how Lakhvi is taking visitors instead of facing action.