NEW DELHI: Pakistan should arrest designated global terrorist Hafiz Saeed and try him for his crimes, the United States government said hours after his release from detention.“The United States is deeply concerned that Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Hafiz Saeed has been released from house arrest in Pakistan. LeT is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organisation responsible for the death of hundreds of innocent civilians in terrorist attacks, including a number of American citizens.The Pakistani government should make sure that he is arrested and charged for his crimes,” state department spokesperson Heather Nauert said in a statement in Washington on Friday. The mastermind of the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai was under detention since January but released on Friday after a directive from the judicial review board of Pakistan’s Punjab Province. Saeed carries a bounty of $10 million announced by the US for his role in terror activities.The US treasury department had designated Saeed as a specially-designated global terrorist under executive order 13224 in 2008. Saeed was also designated terrorist under UNSCR 1267 days after the 26/11 attacks in which six American citizens were killed, Nauert said. LeT and several of its front organisations, leaders and operatives remain under both state department and treasury department sanctions. Saeed on his part delivered an incendiary speech in Lahore on India after he was released on Friday. Saeed also attacked ousted Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif, calling him a traitor who wanted peace with India.“You took oath to defend Pakistan and Kashmir, you betrayed the people of Kashmir. I want to tell you that you were ousted from power because you committed treason for trying to develop close relations with Prime Minister Modi, who is the killer of hundreds of Muslims,” Saeed said in aFridayprayer sermon at the Markaz Al-Qadsia in Lahore. “India, as indeed the entire international community, is outraged that a self-confessed and UN proscribed terrorist is being allowed to walk free and continue with his evil agenda,” foreign ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar had saidon Thursday.Pakistan’s refusal to take action against Saeed has been one the biggest stress points of its relationship with India.