Pakistan’s government announced a crackdown on charities linked to militant Islamic groups, which have been active in aiding victims of the country’s catastrophic floods, reports Reuters.

Islamist charities have rushed to provide shelter, food, clean water, and other aid as the scale of the disaster has overwhelmed government agencies. But the government in Pakistan is worried their efforts will undermine its fight against the Taliban.

“The banned organizations are not allowed to visit flood-hit areas,” and their members will be arrested if they try to collect relief funds, Rehman Malik, Pakistan's interior minister, said.

Distrust of Pakistan’s government has been a factor in the relatively muted fund-raising response to the floods in a Brooklyn neighborhood heavily populated by Pakistani families and businesses, according to NPR.

While many people in the Little Pakistan neighborhood are giving to private local organizations or filling donation boxes at stores, the scale of giving pales in comparison to that of 2005 when Pakistan was hit by a devastating earthquake.