Op Sindoor: Brother of dead Pak 'civilian' being 'martyr' points to family's LeT link

One of the dead “civilians” in the Indian strikes on Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) headquarters in Pakistan's Muridke on Wednesday (May 7) during Operation Sindoor had a brother who too died as a “martyr”, his family told a local reporter.

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Muhammad Tufail, father of the killed "civilian" Mudassar, told local reporter Ibtesam Baloch in an interview, seen by this reporter, that he had seven sons.

'Son martyred'

“One son already got martyred earlier,” Tufail said. He didn’t disclose how his other son got "martyred", but it seemed clear that the family had prior ties with LeT.

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“We are standing with the army,” Tufail told the reporter.

He added that his second son, Mudassar, who died in the Muridke strikes, was working as a security guard there for a year.

Mudassar belonged to a city called Chunian in Kasur district of Pakistan's Punjab. Chunian is around 120 km away from Muridke.

Tufail’s neighbours can be seen sitting around him to mourn the death of his son. Mudassar’s younger brother Abdul Rahman told the reporter that even though Chunian is a two-hour drive from Muridke, it took them five hours to bring back his brother’s dead body.

There were police arrangements on the way. People showered flowers, Rahman added. The video’s title also indicated that Mudassar’s funeral took place with “full protocol”.

3 dead in Indian strike

According to Rahman, three people died in the Indian strikes, and his brother was on the top floor of the building that was struck by India.

Following the strike, many other local reporters visited the Muridke headquarters of Lashkar.

In another video, a local reporter said that the Muridke complex was struck thrice, as per the eyewitness account given to him. According to him, a mosque and an adjacent administration office, and a residential building used by the local head of the complex were destroyed.

He interviewed a local there who told him that following the Pahalgam attack, local authorities had come and removed people from the complex. He said authorities were fearing a strike by India on the complex.