Islamabad: Pakistani authorities detained the founder of the Lashkar-e-Toiba militant group, blamed by India for last month's Mumbai attacks, in his house in eastern Pakistan on Thursday, his spokesman said.
"Police have encircled the house of Hafiz Saeed in Lahore and told him he cannot go out of the home. They have told him detention orders will be formally served to him shortly," spokesman Abdullah Montazir told Reuters.
Saeed officially quit the leadership of Lashkar-e-Toiba in 2001 to become head of a charity, Jamaat-ud-Dawa. Analysts and diplomats say the charity is being used as a front for the militant group.
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