Lahore: The police in Lahore have been asked to increase the security of Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, whom India blames for masterminding the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, after reports that the Pakistani Taliban militants might target him.
The interior department of Punjab province has issued a circular to police that there is a "potential" threat to the life of Saeed and his security should be enhanced. Lahore's acting police chief SSP Shafiq Ahmed told PTI that there is a security threat to Saeed and police had received instructions from the provincial government to beef up his security.
"Following the instruction, we have deployed more policemen at his residence in Johar Town and the JuD mosque in Chauburji. We have also improved his escort during his movements," Ahmed said.
There were reports that Saeed had received threats from the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan but Ahmed and JuD spokesman Yahya Mujahid did not confirm this.
"There has been no threat to Hafiz sahab’s life from the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan. We have not received any threat from the Taliban," Mujahid told PTI.
According to an Urdu newspaper, Saeed recently received threats from an "anti-Pakistan group operating in the tribal areas" bordering Afghanistan.
"The Taliban is against Saeed because he issued a fatwa against suicide bombings," the daily reported. Saeed, who is also the founder of the Lashker-e-Toiba, was briefly put under house arrest after the 2008 Mumbai attacks but he was freed on the orders of the Lahore High Court last year.
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