'Pakistan A Successor Of ISIS, Killed Innocents On Religious Lines': Owaisi On Pahalgam Attack - News18 (2025)

Last Updated:April 28, 2025, 08:15 IST

Owaisi lashed out at Pakistan over the Pahalgam terror attack and said that the country is following the ideology of ISIS that people were killed on religious lines.

Pahalgam terror attack: Owaisi slams Pakistan (PTI File Image)

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday continued to bash Pakistan after the barbaric Pahalgam terror attack and said that the neighbouring country was the “successor of ISIS" as the killings of innocent tourists took place on religious lines.

Reiterating that terrorists asked the religion of the people before killing them – as revealed by the survivors of the attack – Owaisi said that “killing innocent people asking their faith is not in our religion".

“Pakistan boasts about its nuclear bomb time and again. Remember, if you kill innocent people in a country, no nation would stay silent. But coming onto Indian land and asking the religion of people, and then shooting them. Which religion are you talking about? You are worse than the Khawarij. This act shows you are the successors of ISIS," Owaisi said.

The AIMIM MP also warned Pakistan against threatening India with a nuclear war, stating that Islamabad does not match the military power that New Delhi possesses.

“Pakistan isn’t just half an hour behind India, they are half a century behind. Our military budget alone is bigger than their entire national budget. Pakistani leaders should not threaten India with nuclear war," Owaisi said.

His remarks came after Pakistani Minister Hanif Abbasi issued a brazen threat to India of a nuclear war, boasting that missiles in Pakistan, such as Ghori, Shaheen, and Ghaznavi, along with 130 nuclear warheads, have been kept “only for India".

The Lok Sabha MP also suggested to the government that the Kashmiri people should be embraced, just as Kashmir is an integral part of India.

“I would also like to say to our Prime Minister that, just like Kashmir is an integral part of India, so are Kashmiri people," he said.

On April 22, terrorists killed 26 people, including a Nepali national, after asking about their religious identities at Baisaran Valley in Pahalgam. The survivors revealed that those who failed to recite Kalma (a religious enchantment in Islam) and who identified themselves as Hindus were shot dead point-blank.

The attack drew global condemnation and immediate measures by New Delhi against Islamabad. Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Cabinet Committee On Security made massive decisions, including the suspension of Indus Waters Treaty, revocation of all visas to the Pakistani nationals and closing Attari border immediately among other steps.

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April 28, 2025, 08:04 IST

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