'Giving state funeral to terrorists doesn't make much sense to us': India slams Pak for glorifying terrorists

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri addressing the press.

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Thursday slammed Pakistan for according state funeral to terrorists killed during India's Operation Sindoor.

During a presser , the diplomat displayed picture of Pakistan army personnel attending the funeral of three terrorists killed in the Indian military strikes under Operation Sindoor and said it is “odd that the funerals of civilians are carried out with the coffins being draped in Pakistani flags and state honours being accorded”.

India carried out military strikes at nine terror infrastructures under ‘Operation Sindoor’ on Wednesday in response to the April 22 terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam, in which 26 civilians had died. India confirmed that several terror targets were eliminated in the strikes, which Pakistan claimed to be civilians.

"... It's also odd that funerals of civilians are being carried out with coffins wrapped in their national flag, and state honours are being accorded. The individuals eliminated at these facilities were terrorists. Giving state funerals to terrorists may be a practice in Pakistan, but it doesn't seem to make much sense to us... Yesterday, Pakistan launched a targeted attack on the Sikh community of J&K- hitting a gurdwara in Poonch and hitting the Sikh community members, who came under attack. Three individuals were killed in the attacks... A total of 16 civilians have been killed in Poonch and several others have been injured," remarked Misri.

The three individuals — Qari Abdul Malik, Khalid, and Mudassir — were killed in a targeted strike on terror group’s headquarters in Muridke, carried out by Indian forces as part of ‘Operation Sindoor’. The funeral was held under tight security and was also attended by members of Pakistan’s civil bureaucracy, the PTI report quoted Tabish Qayyum, spokesperson of the Pakistan Markazi Muslim League, a political wing of JuD.