26/11 planner LeT Commander Zakiur Lakhvi arrested in Pakistan

TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/ LeT commander and 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks planner Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi has reportedly been arrested in Pakistan.

The LeT terrorist has been arrested in connection with a terrorism financing case registered by the Punjab Counter Terror Department, Punjab at Lahore police station. He was allegedly running a dispensary using funds collected for terrorism financing.

Lakhvi, the operations commander of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, was designated as a global terrorist by the UN under the United Nations Security Council Resolution in 2008 after the Mumbai attacks.

The UN-designated terrorist was behind the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008 when 10 heavily-armed Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists from Pakistan created mayhem in the city, killing 166 people and injuring over 300 others.