Story highlights Hafiz Saeed has been arrested in Pakistan, along with four other suspects

Saeed can be detained for up to 12 months under Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Act

(CNN) The alleged mastermind of the 2008 terror attacks that left 164 people dead in Mumbai, India, has been placed under house arrest in Pakistan. After the authorities in Pakistan put Islamist leader Hafiz Muhammad Saeed under house arrest in Lahore on Tuesday (31 January), his supporters have now vowed to protest against his detention. To have an idea of the 'severity' of the 'preventive detention' under which Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) frontman and Mumbai attacks mastermind Saeed has been held along with his four accomplices — Abdullah Ubaid, Zafar Iqbal, Abdul Rehman Abid and Qazi Kashif Niazi of Multan — take a look at what TheNew York Times had reported back in December 2008 when this play was enacted for the first time. According to a senior Pakistani defence ministry official, Islamabad has not yet contacted the new US administration under President Donald Trump but had been feeling the pressure of Washington on the issue.
Pakistan detains Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the suspected mastermind of the 2008 attacks in the Indian city. Saeed, co-founder of the active terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba, is being held under house arrest in Lahore in Pakistan's Punjab Province. Four other men are also under house arrest in the area.