In posters in Pakistan, Lashkar claims responsibility for Uri attack

October 25, 2016 15:56

Posters have appeared in Pakistan's Gujranwala town announcing that the Lashkar-e-Tayiba will be holding last rites in absentia for one of the four terrorists who attacked the Indian Armys 12 Brigade at Uri, killing 20 soldiers and sparking off the worst India-Pakistan crisis in years. The posters are the first hard evidence for Indian allegations that the attacks were carried out by a Pakistan-based jihadist group until now been denied by Islamabad.

According to a report by the Indian Express, the posters name one perpetrator as Gujranwala resident Muhammad Anas, who operated under the alias Abu Siraqa. They invite local residents to join namaaz prayers for the Lashkar-e-Taibas lion-hearted holy warrior Abu Siraqa Muhammad Anas, who sent 177 Hindu soldiers to hell at the Uri Brigade camp in occupied Kashmir, and thus drank from the glass of martyrdom.

Bearing images of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the head of the Lashkar-e-Taibas parent organisation, the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the posters say the ghaybana namaaz janaza, or last rites held in the absence of the body of the deceased, will be held at Bada Nullah, near Girjakh, in the Punjab town of Gujranwala.

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