TIL Desk/World/Lahore/ The Lahore High Court today restrained the Pakistan government from arresting Hafiz Saeed, the 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind and JuD chief, till further orders.
Saeed had yesterday moved the court seeking protection from arrest or action against Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) and Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) ahead of the visit of the monitoring team of the United Nations Security Council 1267 Sanctions Committee.
The team will be visiting Islamabad from tomorrow for an assessment of Islamabad’s compliance with the world body’s sanctions regime. In his plea, he had said that the government wants to arrest him at the behest of US and India, whose lobby for the last many years has been trying to prove that he was “somehow involved in Mumbai attacks”.
Justice Amin Aminuddin Khan heard Saeed’s plea and refrained the government from taking any adverse action against him. “The LHC today accepted JuD chief Hafiz Saeed’s application and issued order restraining the federal government from arresting him till further orders,” a court official. He said the court also issued notice to the government to file its reply on March 17.
