Pakistan on Saturday arrested a man accused of being a leader of an Islamist militant group blamed by the United States and India for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, a counterterrorism official said.
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The arrest is in relation to terrorism financing, the official said, and not a specific militant attack.
"Proscribed organization LeT [Lashkar-e-Taiba] leader Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi [has been] arrested on charges of terrorism financing," a spokesman for the Counterterrorism Department of the Pakistani province of Punjab said.
The suspect is said to have been running a medical dispensary to collect and disburse funds for militant activities, the spokesman said.
A UN Security Council sanctions committee says Lakhvi is LeT's chief of operations and accuses him of being involved in militant activity in a number of other regions and countries, including Chechnya, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan.
