*WASHINGTON – **US President Donald Trump responds over arrest of JuD ChiefHafiz Saeed in Pakistan.*
*US President Donal Trump lauded Pakistan’s arrest of Jamaat-ud-Dawa chiefHafiz Saeed hours after Saeed was taken into custody by Punjab’sCounter-Terrorism Department.*
India and Washington have accused Saeed of being the mastermind behind the2008 Mumbai attacks.
CTD personnel arrested him earlier in the day while he was travelling fromLahore to Gujranwala. Party spokesperson Nadeem Awan confirmed the arrestto SAMAA Digital on Wednesday.
Without naming Saeed, Trump tweeted that the ‘mastermind’ behind the Mumbaiattacks had been arrested in Pakistan after a 10-year search.
Trump’s tweet comes four days before Prime Minister Imran Khan’s maidenvisit to the White House, amid hopes the trip will repair relations betweenthe two countries. The premier will be going to the US on July 22.
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Since taking office in 2017, Trump has frequently singled out Islamabad forfailing to rein in extremists and being an unfaithful partner in the fightagainst militants.
On July 3, the CTD booked top leaders of the JuD in nearly two dozen casesfor terror financing and money laundering under the Anti-Terrorism Act,1997.
The cases were registered in Lahore, Multan, Gujranwala and Rawalpindi.
