Author: Agencies, Islamabad
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: August 25, 2006
Founder of the banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taibba
(LeT) Hafiz Saeed, who has been kept in house detention since August 10, was
today shifted to an unknown place, a spokesman for the charity headed by him
said.
Police came to his Lahore residence in the
early hours with a letter containing orders for shifting him and took him
away to an unknown destination, said Yhaya Mujahid, spokesman of Jama'at-ud-Daawa
(JUD).
Saeed's son Talha Saeed, who was present at
the home, had an argument with police against the shifting, Mujahid said adding
the police did not provide a copy of the letter to the family.
The shifting of Saeed, who was to be put under
house arrest for a month, comes amid reports of JUD's links with a terror
plot to blow up US-bound planes starting from London.
Funds collected by JUD from Britain after
last October's massive earthquake had been diverted to fund the plot, according
to the media reports.
Saeed was put under house arrest and his organization
was not given permission to hold public gathering at Minar-e-Pakistan on the
Independence Day on August 14.
His wife Memoona Saeed had challenged his
house arrest in the Lahore High Court, which came up for hearing yesterday.
Police told the court that the arrest was to prevent him from disrupting public
peace.
India suspects LeT's involvement in the July
11 serial train blasts in Mumbai and had called Saeed's detention a positive
step.
Pakistan Foreign Office had absolved Saeed
of any role in the airline terror plot and said his house arrest was not in
anyway connected with it.
