KARACHI: Pakistani police have arrested a businessman who donated funds to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, police told Reuters on Wednesday, in a rare case targeting those who financially contribute to militancy.

The suspect, Syed Sheaba Ahmed, was detained in the southern city of Karachi, police said although they did not say when. He paid for the treatment of wounded Taliban militants at a hospital in the city of Lahore, police said.

He also influenced two militants involved in an attack on a busload of minority Shiite Ismaili Muslims in May that killed 45 people, senior police officer Naveed Khawaja from the provincial Counter Terrorism Department told reporters.

He will be charged with terror financing, said Khawaja.

“Ahmed has also been financing Afghan Taliban, we are still in the process of ascertaining if he has been providing financing through his businesses or someone else is behind him,” the officer said.

“Ahmed was also providing financial assistance to AQIS,” Khawaja said, referring to Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, a branch of Al-Qaeda that was founded a year ago.

The arrest is a rare success for Pakistan’s police force, struggling with militancy and corruption as well as crime.