Hafiz Saeed-backed party fields candidates

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Markazi Muslim League (PMML) party, set up 26/11 terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed, has fielded candidates for most of the national and provincial assembly constituencies across Pakistan for the February 8 general elections.

Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), has been in jail since 2019 after being convicted for several years in multiple terror finance cases along with some other leaders of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD).

“We want to come to power not for corruption but to serve the people and make Pakistan an Islamic welfare state,” PMML president Khalid Masood Sindhu said in a video message.