Hafiz Saeed, 4 others put under house arrest

Authorities have placed Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed under house arrest, reported Pakistan’s leading TV channel quoting sources within Punjab Home Department on Monday. Saeed has been placed under house arrest at Jamia Qadsia Chauburji in Lahore, sources told Geo News.

Punjab government’s Home Department issued the detention order of Saeed and Lahore Police reached JuD headquarters in Chauburji to implement the order, JuD said. He “is at Masjid-e-Qadsia Chauburji and a heavy contingent of police has surrounded the JuD headquarters,” JuD official Ahmed Nadeem, who was present at the premises of the outfit, said. Ubaid, Iqbal, Abid and Niaz were also taken into preventive custody.