'look Who's Behind Him': Indian Envoy To Uk Says Pak Army Officials, Masood Azhar's Brother Present At Funeral Of Terrorists

As nan separator tensions betwixt India and Pakistan proceed to escalate, Indian envoy to nan UK Vikram Doraisami took Islamabad to nan cleaners complete nan beingness of Pakistan Army unit astatine nan ceremonial of terrorists. 

Showing an image of nan funeral, Doraisami said that it is an undeniable grounds of Pakistan's complicity successful sponsoring coercion some wrong and extracurricular its borders. The image shown by nan envoy featured apical Pakistani Army officials pinch Hafiz Abdur Rauf. 

Rauf was starring nan prayers for those killed successful nan strikes connected LeT's office successful Muridke, astir an hr distant from Lahore.

"I judge it is for your viewers. This personification present is simply a sanctioned violent nether nan American sanctions regime. His sanction is Hafiz Abdur Rauf. He's a relative of nan laminitis of nan violent group that you're mentioning," Doraisami told Sky News' Yalda Hakim successful an interview.

Hafiz Abdur Rauf is simply a US-sanctioned violent and nan relative of Jaish-e-Mohammed main Maulana Masood Azhar. He further said that nan coffins lying location person a Pakistani flag, a clear-cut denotation of Islamabad's repeated endorsement of terrorism.

"Look who is down him. Pakistani military. Look astatine nan coffins there. They person nan Pakistani nationalist flag. If you're going to beryllium giving terrorists authorities funerals, what does that make of your system?"

Rauf was 1 of nan masterminds down nan 1999 hijacking of nan IC-814 flight, nan 2001 Parliament attack, and nan 2016 Pathankot airbase attack.

When questioned connected why India had not presented immoderate grounds to Islamabad to substantiate Pakistan's engagement successful nan Pahalgam attack, Doraisami cited nan 2016 Pathankot attack, wherein India permitted Pakistani investigators to entree an Indian Air Force base. 

He mentioned that nan aforesaid practice was not reciprocated by nan Pakistani establishment. The envoy besides mentioned nan 2008 Mumbai attacks and said nan grounds handed complete by New Delhi to Islamabad was either ignored aliases misused to muddy nan waters connected nan links betwixt terrorists and Pakistan's heavy state. 

Doraisami, however, is not nan only Indian charismatic to emblem nan image and telephone retired Pakistan for its tacit support of terrorism.

During a briefing connected Thursday, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri showed nan image and said: "As acold arsenic we are concerned, nan individuals eliminated astatine these accommodation were terrorists. Giving terrorists authorities funerals whitethorn beryllium a believe successful Pakistan. It doesn't look to make overmuch consciousness to us."

Published on: May 9, 2025 12:29 PM IST