Post Operation Sindoor, LeT aide posts clips of funerals in Muridke, Bahawalpur
Muhammad Abdullah, supposedly information secretary of a party floated by LeT's Hafiz Saeed, claims 26 Pakistanis were “martyred” by strikes, and 'warns' India
A little over 14 hours after Indian strikes on nine terror factories in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir (PoK) on Wednesday (May 7), hundreds of Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) supporters gathered to pay their last respects to their fallen comrades.
Video clips showed them chanting, “Pakistan ka matlab kya, La Ilaha Illallah” (What’s the meaning of Pakistan, there is no God but Allah), a slogan coined in 1943 by Urdu poet Asghar Saudai, which became a political rallying point for the creation of Pakistan.
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Funeral in Muridke
Muhammad Abdullah, who claims to be the information secretary of Pakistan Markazi Muslim League (PMML), the political party floated by LeT patron Hafiz Muhammed Saeed, posted a video of a funeral on X, the caption mentioning the “martyrs of Murid”—confirming India’s claim of targeting terror assets and infrastructure there.
"The echo of sabiluna al jehad al jehad ('jehad is our path') at the funeral of Muridke martyr," it read in Urdu.
One of nine terror factories hit by India was the LeT headquarters in Muridke, on the outskirts of Lahore, the capital of Pakistani Punjab.
A 'warning' for India
Abdullah posted another video on X of a funeral in Bahawalpur, where the headquarters of another terror outfit, Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), was targeted by India.
His tweet, translated into English from Urdu by X, read: "The funeral prayers of the martyrs of Bahawalpur were also performed with military honors. India will have to pay for the martyrdom of these innocent flowers, God willing."
This, too, underscored the losses suffered by JeM in the Indian strikes.
Pledge for response
This wasn’t the first “warning” issued to India by Abdullah; immediately after the strikes at 1.28 am, his first comment came: “It will be responded In sha Allah (sic).”
In other posts, he claimed that the Indian strikes had targeted mosques, resulting in the “martyrdom” of 26 Pakistanis.
But in the days following the Pahalgam attack, in which 26 men were killed, the Indian security establishment did a thorough exercise in picking the targets to punish Pakistan.
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How India picked targets
Sources say intelligence assessment from the ground by Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) assets, and the analysis of overhead satellite imagery by the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO), along with inputs from the military went into picking the targets.
Initial reports suggested that Pakistan had taken care to camouflage many terror factories following the Pahalgam attack of April 22. Reports of moving terror recruits to safer places were also received.
But the JeM and LeT headquarters were picked as targets to stress the extent of India’s reach to the heart of terror in Muridke and Bahawalpur.
