Hafeez Mohammad Saeed hates India--it's his ideology. "There cannot be any peace while India remains intact. Cut them, cut them so much that they kneel before you and ask for mercy," he said once in one of his venomous hate speeches.

Hafeez -- a title bestowed upon people who know

the Quran by heart -- was born to a conservative family in Sargodha in Pakistan Punjab in 1950. As many as 36 members of the family were allegedly killed during their Partition journey from Shimla to Lahore when Saeed's father Kamal-ud-din moved to Pakistan. The family history would form Saeed's hatred against the 'Hindu' nation.

Saeed's family settled in Mianwali district of Pakistan and over the years earned the reputation of being religious scholars. Saeed made theology his profession and quietly built a reputation as an expert in Islamic jurisprudence. His first big break came when Pakistani dictator General Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq appointed him to the state-run Council on Islamic Ideology. Photos

A promotion was next: he was posted as professor of Islamic studies at the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. The university sent him to Saudi Arabia in the early eighties, where he began his journey as a jihadist, supporting the Mujahideen in Afghanistan.

"Saeed was a product of military ruler Zia-ul-Haq's efforts to place

India should give him the Israeli treatment!!