Overview
- Talal Chaudhry, minister of state for interior and a close aide to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, visited the Pakistan Markazi Muslim League office in Faisalabad on Thursday.
- News reports describe the visit as the first by a federal minister to the PMML headquarters in recent times.
- The PMML is widely portrayed as the political face of Jamaat-ud-Dawah, and Hafiz Saeed remains in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail following multiple terror-financing convictions since 2019.
- A PMML statement said discussions with Chaudhry focused on national unity, political stability, and the continuity of democratic processes.
- Coverage links the party’s heightened public activity to tensions after the May Pahalgam attack and notes earlier outreach by Punjab Assembly Speaker Malik Ahmad Khan, who praised Saeed at a PMML rally.