Mumbai attacks mastermind and Jamat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed and 12 of his close aides will be arrested “very soon”, police said on Thursday, a day after Pakistani authorities booked them for committing multiple offences of terror financing and money laundering. As the FIRs have been registered the suspects will be arrested shortly,” Punjab police spokesperson Niyab Haider Naqvi told PTI. When asked as why the CTD has not yet arrested Saeed and others despite their nomination in the FIRs, Naqvi said: “In first, the FIR is registered against a suspect and then he is arrested. Pakistan failed to complete its action plan on terror financing on the FATF's deadline in June last. On Wednesday, the CTD said it booked Saeed and 12 aides for 'terror financing' in 23 cases after “irrefutable evidence” against them was detected.

Source: The Telegraph July 04, 2019 09:33 UTC