Hafiz Saeed, widely considered one of South Asia's most dangerous militants, has no doubt who is to blame for devastating floods that have submerged swaths of Pakistani countryside and claimed hundreds of lives.
"India irrigates its deserts and dumps extra water on Pakistan without any warning," the bearded Saeed said as he surveyed a vast expanse of muddy water from a rescue boat just outside the central city of Multan. "If we don't stop India now, Pakistan will continue to face this danger."
His comments will surprise few in India, where Saeed is suspected of helping mastermind the 2008 Mumbai massacre, which killed 166 people, a few of them Americans. Saeed, who has a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, denies involvement.
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