LAHORE – Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) leader Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was arrested onSaturday in Pakistan on terror financing charges, according to an officialstatement.

Lakhvi, 61, is accused of being a leader of a militant group blamed by theUnited States and India for the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

He was arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjabprovince during a raid conducted in Lahore.

“Proscribed organisation LeT (Lashkar-e-Taiba) leader Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi(has been) arrested on charges of terrorism financing,” a spokesman for theCounter Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Pakistani province of Punjab said.

”Lakhvi is accused of running a dispensary, using funds collected forterrorism financing. He and others also collected funds from thisdispensary and used these funds for further terrorism financing. He alsoused these funds for personal expenses,” the CTD said.

The CTD said that in addition to belonging to proscribed organisation LeT,Lakhvi is also a UN designated individual. ”His trial will be held beforethe Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore,” it added.