Hafiz Saeed's group collaborates with Punjab admin in flood relief
Hafiz Saeed’s political wing, the Pakistan Markazi Muslim League (PMML), has been working alongside the Punjab provincial administration during severe monsoon flooding that began around August 23, with officials reporting 37 lakh people affected and over 3,900 villages submerged in the past two weeks in Pakistan’s Punjab province, amid a death toll of at least 46 and large-scale evacuations since late August into early September 2025. A PMML-issued photo showed Faisalabad Deputy Commissioner Capt (R) Nadeem Nasir touring inundated areas with PMML members on September 3, while the PML-N-led government offered no official comment, highlighting sensitivities around coordination with a group linked to the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawah and Lashkar-e-Taiba, whose 2008 Mumbai attacks left 166 dead and whose chief remains a UN-designated terrorist under U.S. bounty and in custody since 2019, according to prior official accounts. Punjab’s disaster authority detailed mass relocations of residents and livestock as NGOs including the Markazi Muslim League mobilized thousands of volunteers for boat rescues and aid distribution, even as opposition parties accused the provincial government of politicizing relief efforts.