Still defiant: Saeed speaking to the media as he is escorted to his home where he will be under house arrest in Lahore, Pakistan. — Reuters
Lahore: Pakistan has placed the chief suspect behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks under house arrest as it cracks down on the group linked to the carnage.
Firebrand cleric Hafiz Saeed, who heads the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) group and has a US$10mil (RM44.2mil) bounty on his head, is to be placed under “preventative detention”, according to the Interior Ministry order.
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