New Delhi/Lahore, Sep 18 - With Washington and New Delhi ratcheting up pressure on it over the Mumbai attack probe, the Pakistan police have filed two complaints against suspected terror mastermind Hafiz Saeed ahead of the month-end meeting between the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan in New York.

Police in Faisalabad Thursday lodged two first information reports (FIRs) against Saeed for making a speech to his supporters last month in which he called for jihad or holy war and appealed for funds for the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, an Islamic charity India and the US suspect is a front for terror operations and is now banned by the UN.

Police said they plan to arrest Saeed soon.

But given the kind of influence Saeed wields in Pakistan's political establishment, it's unlikely Islamabad will give the go-ahead to arrest him.

India has been relentlessly asking Pakistani to take tangible action against Saeed before talks, suspended after the 26/11 attacks, can resume.

Saeed has also been charged under Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Act for making anti-state speeches.

The cases against Saeed were filed in connection with his visit to Faisalabad Aug 27-28, when police said he had attended iftar dinners and exhorted members of the banned outfit to wage a jehad.

The police move comes barely days before External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna meets his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York later this month. Pakistan's action against the Mumbai terror suspects will top the agenda.

If Pakistan is able to convincingly demonstrate that it has arrested Saeed, it could be crucial in thawing the deepening freeze in bilateral ties between the two neighbours.