Pakistan Shuts Islamic Charity

Pakistan on Thursday closed 11 offices of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, an Islamic charity alleged to be connected to the deadly attacks in Mumbai, India, last month, reports The Washington Post.

According to a Pakistani Foreign Ministry official and a top official at the charity, the group’s leader, Hafiz Sayeed, was placed under house arrest in Lahore. Mr. Sayeed was one of four individuals flagged by the U.N. Security Council Wednesday when it designated the charity as a terrorist organization and imposed sanctions against the group, freezing its assets, banning travel, and embargoing arms.

According to the United Nations, the charity is linked to Lashkar-i-Taiba, the Pakistani militant group that Indian authorities believe is responsible for the three-day attacks in Mumbai that killed at least 171 people, including six Americans.

Mr. Sayeed denied reports that he had met with a Mumbai attacker and said his group had split from Lashkar after Pakistan banned Lashkar following a 2001 attack on India’s Parliament.

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