Pakistan has banned an Islamic charity group named "Jamaat-ud-Dawa" on Thursday and added its four leaders to the list of terrorists, Advisor to the Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik said.
The private TV channel DAWN NEWS quoted Malik as saying that the Interior Ministry had ordered concerned departments to monitor its movement and seal its offices across the country.
It also quoted police sources as saying that the Chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawa Hafiz Muhammad Saeed had been put under house arrest.
Police have been deployed at the headquarters of Jamaat-ud- Dawa in Lahore, capital city of eastern Punjab province.
The United Nations Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee on Wednesday added four members of Pakistani banned outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba including Hafiz to its banned list who should be "subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo."
The "Lashkar-e-Taiba" has been blamed for the Mumbai attacks last month, which killed nearly 180 people and injured over 300 others.
The Security Council panel also said that the charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa was a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba and subject to sanctions.