HAFIZ SAEED AND FOUR OTHER ASSOCIATES PLACED UNDER HOUSE ARREST

Lahore: Police in Lahore raided the office of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa on Monday and put its leader Hafiz Saeed and four other associates under preventive detention at their residence for an indefinite period.

The outfit and its charity arm Falah-i-Insaaniyat have been put on the terrorist watch list, though an expected ban was not announced.

A notification was issued by the Interior Ministry on the action against Hafiz Saeed.

U.S. threatened sanctions

The crackdown came after reports in Pakistani newspapers claimed that the U.S. had threatened sanctions if Pakistan did not ban the JuD. Hours before the action, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar confirmed the reports at a press conference in Islamabad. “We have been deliberating on the fate of the JuD for quite sometime now. It will be decided in the next 24 hours,” he had told the media.

Source: Agencies