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Pakistan has arrested Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, a leader of armed group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) – blamed by the United States and India for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, a counterterrorism official said. The arrest is in relation to “terrorism financing”, the official said on Saturday, and not a specific attack. “Proscribed organisation LeT leader Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi [has been] arrested on charges of terrorism financing,” a spokesman for the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Pakistan’s Punjab province said. The suspect is said to have been running a medical dispensary to collect and d...

2008 MUMBAI ATTACK Reuters, Lahore Reuters, Lahore Pakistan yesterday arrested a man accused of being a leader of an Islamist militant group blamed by the United States and India for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, a counter-terrorism official said.  The arrest is in relation to terrorism financing, the official said, and not a specific militant attack. "Proscribed organisation LeT (Lashkar-e-Taiba) leader Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi (has been) arrested on charges of terrorism financing," a spokesman for the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Pakistani p...

Security personnel escort Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi from a courthouse after a hearing in Islamabad, on January 1, 2015 - AFP The Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Saturday arrested Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, leader of proscribed organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), in an intelligence-based operation from Lahore, a spokesperson for the CTD said in a statement. Lakhvi was running a medical dispensary to collect and disburse funds for financing terrorism, it added. "He & others also collected funds from this dispensary and used these funds for further terrorism financing. He also used these fun...

LAHORE: The International Human Rights Day was observed in Punjab at different levels on Thursday. The Provincial Department of the Ministry of Human Rights and Minority marked the day with a simple ceremony at the Governor House, with only a handful of people attending because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Provincial minister HR&MA Ijaz Alam Augustine, parliamentary secretary Human Rights Mahinder Pal Singh, MNA Jamshaid Thompson, MPA Haroon Imran Gill, head of Unique Group of Colleges Prof Amjad Ali Khan, political and religious leaders, and representatives of civil society were present at th...