Pakistan has forever denied links to any terrorist organisation, but a recent event held in Punjab province on May 29 proved otherwise. At the congregation, several Pakistani ministers were seen sharing the stage with individuals listed among the world’s most wanted terrorists.
The public event in Kasur in Pakistan's Punjab, organised by the Pakistan Markazi Muslim League (PMML), was held to mark Youm-e-Takbeer. Aides of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz, food minister Malik Rasheed Ahmad Khan and Punjab Assembly Speaker Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan, were seen sitting beside Lashkar-e-Taiba commanders Saifullah Kasuri, Talha Saeed, who is the son of Hafiz Saeed and Amir Hamza.
Pakistan minister Malik Rasheed equated terror figures with national identity, stating that in today's time Pakistanis were represented by the likes of Hafiz Saeed and Saifullah Kasuri. Rasheed even announced that the Shehbaz Sharif-Pakistan government would offer a job to Lashkar commander Mudasir's brother, after the LeT militant was killed in India's airstrike on the terror outfit's headquarters in Muridke.
Saifullah Kasuri, believed to have coordinated the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam on April 22 that killed 26 persons, also appeared at this rally. The Indian government attributed the Pahalgam terror attack to LeT's proxy outfit, The Resistance Front (TRF).
The LeT commander did not only purportedly raise anti-India slogans, but also hailed terrorists killed during India's Operation Sindoor as "martyrs".
"India labelled me the mastermind of the Pahalgam terror attack while I was busy taking part in events and people's happiness here...They took the name 'Kasur', 'Kasuri', so many times that now the entire world knows me as famous," said Kasuri. Kasuri was reportedly believed to have been given shelter by the Pakistani spy agency ISI in Bahawalpur.
Amir Hamza, a US-designated terrorist and co-founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, was also present. He delivered anti-India speeches and raised slogans at the event. Pakistani journalist Taha Siddiqui shared a video of Hamza on X, where he is heard saying, "Kashmir will become Pakistan, Jammu will become Pakistan, Indian Punjab will become Khalistan."
Meanwhile, PMML organised rallies in Karachi and Rawalpindi as well, to witness the Youm-e-Takbeer day. Terrorists were seen openly gathering in Kasur, carrying holders and billboards of Field Marshal Asim Munir and Hafiz Saeed.
PMML organised another rally in Gujranwala to mark the anniversary of Pakistan's nuclear test on May 28, wherein LeT commander and US-designated terrorist Muzammil Hashmi sent a message to ‘his enemy’.
"Listen carefully; you threaten us with your bullets. Modi, we are giving you a message that when our children did not get afraid of your missiles, how will we fear your bullets?" Hashmi said at the event. He further said that neither could India's elders make us afraid, nor can you (Modi). Hashmi said that Pakistan is a country that never forgives its enemies.
Pakistan has repeatedly denied sheltering terror outfits and terrorists, while blaming India for accusing it of encouraging cross-border terrorism.
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