Pakistan Arrests Terror Suspect as Khan Prepares to Meet Trump
- Saeed faces more than a dozen criminal & terrorism charges
- Pakistan has arrested and released Saeed many times in past
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Pakistan arrested Hafiz Saeed, the suspected planner of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, on terrorism-related charges days before Prime Minister Imran Khan meets U.S. President Donald Trump.
Saeed, who heads the proscribed Jamaat-ud-Dawa group, was shifted to jail by the counter-terrorism police in Lahore, group’s spokesman Nadeem Awan said by phone. Saeed, who has been arrested and released many times in the past and has lived freely in Lahore, faces as many as 16 criminal and terrorism-related cases, he said. Saeed has denied the charges.