New Delhi, May 8, 2025 (ANI): Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Monday exposed Pakistan's tacit links to terror groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jais-e-Mohammed. While addressing a media briefing on Operation Sindoor in Delhi on Thursday, Misri questioned why terror operatives were being accorded a state funeral with the presence of military brass. "It's also odd that the funerals of civilians are carried out with the 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. It doesn't seem to make much sense to us." Misri held up the photo where Hafiz Abdul Rauf, a US-designated global terrorist and high-level Lashkar-e-Taiba commander, leading funeral prayers for those who died in the Indian missile strikes.
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00:00Giving terrorists state funerals may be a practice in Pakistan doesn't seem to make much sense to us.
00:06The claim that only civilians were killed in the strikes on the 7th of May.
00:18We have made the point very clearly that all attacks on the morning of 7th May were against carefully selected terrorist infrastructure, terrorist targets.
00:35It is not clear to us, in fact, seeing some of the coverage of the after effects of these strikes, including the funerals for the terrorists that were held yesterday.
00:52I think a lot of you have seen the reports and the coverage on media.
01:01If only civilians, if any civilians were killed in these attacks, I wonder what message this picture actually sends to all of you.
01:13This is a question that is worth asking.
01:16It is also odd that the funerals of civilians are carried out with the coffins being draped in Pakistani flags and state honours being accorded.
01:33As far as we are concerned, the individuals eliminated at these facilities were terrorists.
01:40Giving terrorists, giving terrorists state funerals may be a practice in Pakistan doesn't seem to make much sense to us.
01:51Pakistan has also claimed that India deliberately attacked religious sites.
01:59This is completely false.
02:01False, again, I have made it clear that the targets were terrorist infrastructure, terrorist facilities, and locations connected clearly with incidents of cross-border terrorism into India.
02:19And it is, in fact, Pakistan that is misusing religious sites as a cover to, in fact, radicalize, direct, and indoctrinate and train terrorists.
02:33In fact, contrary to what Pakistan is claiming, yesterday, Pakistan launched a targeted attack on the Sikh community in the state of Jammu and Kashmir,
02:46hitting Gurdwara in Punsh and the homes of Sikh community members, which came under attack.
02:54And we know that at least three individuals were killed in that particular attack.