NEW DELHI: Mumbai terror attack mastermind, Hafiz Saeed, who is also the chief of Jamat ud Dawa (JuD) has been arrested, Indian media reports have said.
The Punjab Police Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Pakistan arrested Saeed from Lahore. Reports said that he has been reportedly sent on judicial remand. Sources have claimed that Saeed said he would challenge the case against him in court.
Saeed’s arrest comes a day before Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s first trip to the United States and a day after it opened its airspace. The Pakistan government has been under immense pressure especially from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to act against terrorists and terror outfits which operating out of Pakistan.
Saeed, who is a UN-designated global terrorist, faces 23 terror-related cases in Pakistan. The Pakistan counter-terrorism department had earlier said that it had registered the cases against Saeed along with 23 others for raising funds for terrorism financing.
The Mumbai attacks on November 26, 2008, were a series of terrorist attacks that killed at least 174 people, including 9 terrorists in India’s Mumbai city. Ten members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic terrorist outfit, carried out the attacks that lasted for four days. More than 300 were injured in the attacks. (Agencies)
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