 "Hafiz Saeed, centre, chief of Pakistani religious group Jamaat-ud-Dawa an alliance of Islamic parties, addresses a gathering to condemn recent American drone attacks in Karachi, Pakistan")
Jammat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of Mumbai terror attack, was tonight placed under house arrest in Lahore, his outfit said.
Punjab government's Home Department has issued detention order of Saeed and Lahore Police have reached JuD headquarters in Chauburji to implement the order, it said.
He "is at Masjid-e-Qadsia Chauburji and a heavy contingent of police has surrounded the JuD headquarters," JuD official Ahmed Nadeem, who is present at the premises of the outfit, told PTI by phone.
"The commanding police officer told us that he has with him the house arrest order of the JuD chief issued by the Punjab Home
