Saifullah Kasuri, the deputy chief of Hafiz Saeed-led outfit and the mastermind of the Pahalgam terror attack, made the remarks while addressing school children in a function organised at a school in Pakistan. He also claimed that India is scared because of his presence and issued provocative threats against New Delhi.
A top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) leader has acknowledged the Pakistan Army’s explicit association with the LeT, saying he receives regular invitations from the Pakistan Army to participate in events held by the military and is invited by it to lead funeral prayers for its soldiers.
Saifullah Kasuri, the deputy chief of Hafiz Saeed-led outfit and the mastermind of the Pahalgam terror attack, made the remarks while addressing school children in a function organised at a school in Pakistan. He also claimed that India is scared because of his presence and issued provocative threats against New Delhi.
“The Pakistan Army invites me by sending an invitation… The Pakistan Army invites me to lead funeral prayers for its soldiers,” Kasuri told the gathering, contradicting repeated claims of Pakistan’s government to global actors regarding actions against terrorist factions operating within its borders. Kasuri’s public admission, while exposing the authenticity of Pakistan’s repeated statements on fighting terrorism, also clearly shows the cooperation between the military and proscribed groups and the extent of their involvement.
Kasuri earlier, while acknowledging that India’s Operation Sindoor destroyed terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan, claimed that India had “made a mistake” by targeting terror camps and openly reiterated the outfit’s focus on Kashmir, declaring that the group would “never back down from the Kashmir mission.” “India made a big mistake in Operation Sindoor by targeting only terrorist hideouts,” Kasuri was heard saying in a video.
The LeT deputy chief earlier in a rally had also said that he had become famous as he was being “blamed for being the mastermind of the Pahalgam terror attack”. “I was blamed as being the mastermind of the Pahalgam terror attack, now my name is famous in the entire world,” he said at a rally in Kasur in Punjab province.
India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam attack that killed 26 civilians. After four days of intense cross-border drone and missile strikes, India and Pakistan reached an understanding on May 10 to end the fighting. India and Pakistan reached an understanding on May 10 to end the conflict after four days of intense cross-border drone and missile strikes.
