- NEW DELHI — Highlighting Pakistan's reputation as the epicentre of global
terrorism once again, India on Thursday questioned Islamabad's claims about
civilians being killed during the May 7 Operation Sindoor strikes even as the
video footage of eliminated terrorists being accorded a state funeral has gone
viral on social media.
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- "The claim that only civilians were killed in the
strikes on the 7th of May. We have made the point very clearly that all attacks
on the morning of 7th May were against carefully selected terrorist
infrastructure, terrorist targets," Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said
during a media briefing in New Delhi on Operation Sindoor.
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- "It is not clear to us, in fact, seeing some of the
coverage of the aftereffects of these strikes, including the funerals for the
terrorists that were held yesterday. I think a lot of you have seen the reports
and the coverage in the media. If only civilians, or if any civilians were
killed in these attacks, I wonder what message this picture actually sends to
all of you. This is a question that is worth asking," he said while
holding a photograph that showed UN-proscribed Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba's
top Commander Hafiz Abdur Rauf leading the funeral prayers of LeT terrorists
killed in Indian airstrikes in Muridke on Wednesday.
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- "It's also odd that the funerals of civilians are
carried out with coffins being draped in Pakistani flags and state honours
being accorded. As far as we are concerned, the individuals eliminated at these
facilities were terrorists. Giving terrorists state funerals may be a practice
in Pakistan, doesn't seem to make much sense to us," Misri added.
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- Misri highlighted that Pakistan's reputation as the
epicentre of global terrorism is rooted in a number of instances.
