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, in an undated video that has now surfaced.
His remarks contradicted 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.
“Do you know India is scared of me?” the terrorist said. Earlier, while acknowledging that India’s Operation Sindoor destroyed terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan, Kasuri had 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 an undated 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.
