Pak police register cases against Saeed under Anti-Terror Act

M Zulqernain

Lahore, Sep 18 (PTI) Under mounting international
pressure, Pakistani police has registered two cases against
JuD chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the mastermind of 26/11 Mumbai
terror attacks, and one against his close aide Abu Jandal
under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

Three FIRs – two against Saeed and one against Abu
Jandal – were registered at police stations in Faisalabad,
some 100 km from here, for inciting people to wage "jehad"
(holy war) against "infidels", a senior police officer told
PTI late Thursday night.

The officer, who did not wish to be identified, said
Saeed had attended Iftar-dinners and held a meeting with
activists of his banned Jamaat-ud-Dawah organisation on August
27 and 28 during which he asked the people to wage a jehad.

"Saeed had also sought donations from the gatherings
for jehad," a source in a law enforcement agency told PTI.

The police action against Saeed comes days ahead of a
proposed meeting between the Foreign Ministers and Foreign
Secretaries of India and Pakistan on the sidelines of the UN
General Assembly session in New York.

Saeed, the founder of banned Lashker-e-Taiba, has been
blamed by India for masterminding the Mumbai terror attacks
last year which claimed 183 innocent lives. MORE PTI