Islamabad- Prosecutors are to appeal against a court decision to grant bail to a man accused of plotting a 2008 militant assault in India's financial capital that killed 166 people and seriously strained ties between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
The decision on Thursday to grant bail to Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi came two days after Pakistan's worst ever militant attack.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemned the prospect of bail for the man.
The Pakistani government appeared to have been taken by surprise by the decision. State prosecutor Chaudhry Azhar said the decision will be challenged.
"We will go to Islamabad High Court on Monday to file the application," Azhar said.
Lakhvi can’t leave the prison until then, he said.
The decision to grant bail to Lakhvi comes two months after India and Pakistan were engaged in their worst cross-border violence in more than a decade, in the disputed Kashmir region. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been trying to repair relations with India.
Lakhvi was arrested in Pakistan in 2009 and jailed.