In a major crackdown, the Pakistan government today took control of the sprawling headquarters of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, a front organisation of the LeT blamed for the Mumbai attacks, in Muridke near Lahore.
Khakan Babar, recently appointed by the government of Pakistan’s Punjab province as the Chief Administrator, took over the JuD's Markaz-e-Taiba headquarters at Muridke, about 30 km from Lahore.
The process was completed in the presence of Lahore’s Commissioner, the district police chief, an official of the Auqaf or religious affairs department and a police contingent. Babar will supervise and monitor all activities at the JuD's headquarters, Dawn News channel reported.
Babar, his eight-member staff and about a dozen policemen will be housed in the Markaz-e-Taiba complex that includes a school, a college and a hospital.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said today that the Pakistan government would share the findings of its probe into the Mumbai attacks with the whole world, including India.
Addressing a gathering at Multan in Punjab province, Gilani said Pakistan wanted friendly relations with India and Afghanistan but on “equal terms”.
He said the whole world, including India, would be taken into confidence on the findings of Pakistan’s probe into the Mumbai attacks.