New Delhi:
In a stunning public admission that cuts through years of denials and diplomatic doublespeak, the commander of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Hafiz Abdul Rauf, has acknowledged that India’s Operation Sindoor delivered a devastating blow to the terror group’s nerve centre in Muridke, razing what he described as its headquarters at Markaz-e-Taiba on the night of May 6-7, 2025.
Rauf, a US-designated global terrorist, told a gathering that the strike was “a very big attack” and conceded that the complex had been reduced to rubble.
“What happened on May 6-7, that place is no longer a mosque. Today, we cannot even sit there. It is finished; it has collapsed,” he said, in remarks that amount to the most direct confirmation yet from within LeT that India’s operation hit its intended target.
Rauf has been the operational commander of Lashkar involved in training of terrorists and launching them from Pakistan Army-sponsored launchpads in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK).
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