New Delhi, Sep 18 - Home Minister P. Chidambaram Friday welcomed the Pakistan police's move to file complaints against suspected Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, and said even 'a half step is a good step'.

'I have gathered it from the media. But I am told that it's not related to the 26/11 attacks. Even if they apprehend him on some other charge and use the opportunity to question him on his involvement in the 26/11 attacks, that would be a significant progress in the case,' Chidambaram said in an interview with the TV news channel Times Now.

'I hope that they question him on 26/11 too,' he added.

Police in Faisalabad, Pakistan's Punjab province, Thursday lodged two first information reports (FIRs) against Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Saeed for making a speech to his supporters last month in which he called for jihad and appealed for funds for his organisation.

JuD is an Islamic charity that India and the US suspect is a front for terror operations and is now banned by the UN. Saeed, who headed the Lashkar-e-Taiba, had morphed LeT into JuD when it was banned.

Chidambaram said: 'Even if they don't say it publicly, even if in private they question him on 26/11, that would be significant progress and I would be happy about that.'

India has said that Saeed had masterminded the Nov 26 Mumbai terrorist carnage.