Lahore: Pakistani media reports claim that chief of the Jamaat-ud Dawa Rawalpindi wing, Nazeer Ahmed, has been formally arrested by investigative agencies in Pakistan connection with in November 26 Mumbai terror attacks.
Ahmed has already been under house arrest for nearly a month and has now been shifted to an undisclosed location in Lahore.
According to Geo TV reports, Ahmed is a former Pakistani Army Colonel.
Sources have said that Ahmed's detention is a part of the Pakistani government's move to detain all active leaders of the banned Jamaat-ud Dawa across the country.
The offices of Jamaat-ud-Dawa were closed and most of its leaders were detained after it was black-listed by the United Nations Security Council in December 2008.
The organisation has been accused of serving as a front for the outlawed teror group Lashkar-i-Toiba.
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