After over 100 terrorists were killed in India’s precision strikes as part of Operation Sindoor on May 7, videos and images of the funerals of terrorists surfaced on social media, showing several Pakistani Army officials and personnel attending the terrorists’ last rites in different parts of border areas.

On Sunday, the Indian Armed Forces released the names of the Pakistani Army personnel and key police officials of the Punjab province who were at the funeral offering prayers:

• Lieutenant General Fayyaz Hussain Shah, Commander of the IV Corps of Lahore
• Major General Rao Imran Sartaj of the 11th Infantry Division of Lahore
• Brigadier Mohammad Furqan Shabbir
• Dr Usman Anwar, Inspector General of Punjab Police
• Malik Sohaib Ahmed Bherth, Member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab

Pakistan has long maintained that it does not harbour or sponsor terrorism of any kind, but according to images shared by the Indian Armed Forces, many Pakistani Army officials attended the terrorists’ funerals.

Hafiz Abdul Rauf, a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist, led funeral prayers for three men killed in Indian strikes on a terror camp in Muridke, near Lahore. Civil officials, and members of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), founded by Hafiz Saeed, were also present. Those killed, Qari Abdul Malik, Khalid, and Mudassir—were reportedly JuD members and worked as prayer leaders and caretakers at a mosque destroyed in the strike,

Rauf is a specially designated global terrorist by the US Treasury.

Moments after the funeral, a video showed Pakistan Army personnel carrying the coffins of terrorists, which were wrapped in the Pakistan flag, in Muridke.

On May 8, India strongly condemned Pakistan for holding “state funerals” for terrorists, and sharply criticised Islamabad, suggesting that conferring “state funerals” on terrorists may have become a practice in Pakistan.

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, at a press briefing, holding up a photograph showing uniformed Pakistani Army and police personnel praying behind the coffins of the slain terrorists, questioned what message this image conveys.

Misri busted Pakistan’s lies claiming civilians were killed in Indian strikes and said, “It’s also odd that the funerals of civilians are carried out with coffins being draped in Pakistani flags and state honours being accorded”.

The precision strikes under Operation Sindoor were carried out in response to the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 people.

Nine terror sites– Sawai Nalla, Sarjal, Muridke, Kotli, Kotli Gulpur, Mehmoona Joya, Bhimber and Bahawalpur, were targeted.

Each location– four in Pakistan and five in POK– were chosen carefully for strikes. The sites included Bahawalpur, the stronghold of terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed, and Muridke, the headquarters of Lashkar-e-Taiba.

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