Lashkar-e-Taiba operative admits 30+ militants killed by Indian intelligence, delivers sectarian hate speech

NEW DELHI: In what is being seen as a major public confession from within the ranks of Lashkar-e-Taiba, senior operative Rizwan Hanif has confirmed that more than three dozen terrorists linked to the outfit have been targeted and killed across several major Pakistani cities since 2020. Delivering a fiery, hate-filled address to a Pakistani audience, Hanif openly conceded that the terror group has suffered the loss of more than 30 operatives in recent years, using the platform to launch a sharp sectarian attack against other faiths while blaming foreign agents for the killings. Hanif claimed that Indian intelligence agents were responsible for the targeted killings across multiple Pakistani cities and region, including Peshawar, Karachi, Rawalpindi, Muzaffarabad, and Rawalakot. Addressing the crowd, he stated, "In the last four years, 30 of our people were killed by Indian intelligence agents—someone in Peshawar, someone in Karachi, someone in Rawalpindi, someone in Muzaffarabad, someone in Rawalakot." "Our only crime is that we believe in La ilaha illallah. We are not people who worship Hanuman, Ghanshyam, or Hariram. This Hindu wants the cow to be worshipped, the Jew wants the calf to be worshipped, and as long as a servant of Allah—the last Muslim—is alive, he will never allow the cow and the calf to be worshipped."