Staff Reporter
Lahore
The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Punjab Police on Saturday arrested Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, a leader of the proscribed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group, on a terrorism financing charge, an official said. The arrest was made in relation to terrorism financing, spokesman for CTD clarified, and not for a “specific militant attack.”
“Proscribed organisation LeT (Lashkar-e-Taiba) leader Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi (has been) arrested on charges of terrorism financing,” he said.
The suspect is said to have been running a medical dispensary to collect and disburse funds for militant activities, the spokesman added. A UN Security Council sanctions committee considers Lakhvi as LeT’s chief of operations and accuses him of being involved in militant activity in a number of other regions and countries, including India, Chechnya, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan.
