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Pakistan Arrests Alleged Militant Group Leader on Terrorism Financing Charge

Reuters

   LAHORE, PAKISTAN - Pakistan on Saturday arrested a man accused of being
   a leader of an Islamist militant group blamed by the United States and
   India for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, a counter-terrorism official said.

   The arrest is in relation to terrorism financing, the official said,
   and not a specific militant attack.
   "Proscribed organization LeT (Lashkar-e-Taiba) leader Zaki ur Rehman
   Lakhvi (has been) arrested on charges of terrorism financing," a
   spokesman for the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Pakistani
   province of Punjab said.
   The suspect is said to have been running a medical dispensary to
   collect and disburse funds for militant activities, the spokesman said.
   A U.N. Security Council sanctions committee says Lakhvi is LeT's chief
   of operations and accuses him of being involved in militant activity in
   a number of other regions and countries, including Chechnya, Bosnia,
   Iraq and Afghanistan.
   Indian authorities said the lone surviving gunman in the 2008 Mumbai
   siege, in which 166 people were killed, had told interrogators before
   his execution that the assailants were in touch with Lakhvi.

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