New Delhi: Pakistani authorities detained Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the leader of Lashkar-e-Toiba front Jamaat-ud-Dawa in his house in eastern Pakistan on Thursday.
Saeed has been detained for three months but if the past is any indication, then this may not last very long.
Saeed was first placed under house arrest in August 2006 but later Lahore High Court ordered his release.
Authorities rearrested him hours after that, only to set him free again a few weeks later.
Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar has been detained twice in Pakistan. He was briefly detained after the attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001 and then cleared of all charges by a court in Lahore.
He was again detained after the assassination attempts on then-President Pervez Musharraf in 2003 but was freed a few months later.
Former ISI chief General Hamid Gul, considered to be the father of the Taliban, was detained in November 2007 after Musharraf declared a state of emergency. He too was released a week later.
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