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Hafiz Saeed arrest: India wants Pakistan to be more sincere in its efforts to curb terrorism

| | Jan 31, 2017, at 09:41 pm
New Delhi, Jan 31 (IBNS): The Union Foreign Affairs Ministry, on Tuesday, commenting on the house arrest of Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed by the Pakistani government, said that Pakistan has to carry out a credible crackdown to prove its sincerity in the matter, according to media reports.

The government said that Pakistan has been carried out by the Pakistani government earlier too, media reported.

Saeed has been placed under house arrest at Jamia Qadsia Chauburji in Lahore, sources told Geo News.

According to media reports, four others, who have been identified as  Abdullah Ubaid, Zafar Iqbal, Abdur Rehman Abid and Qazi Kashif Niaz, have also been taken into preventive custody.

Saeed is said to be the  2008 Mumbai attack mastermind.

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