'India's temporary happiness will be turned into permanent sorrow': Pakistan leaders spew venom after 'Operation Sindoor'

After Indian air strikes destroyed nine terror targets in Pakistan in retaliation for the Pahalgam strikes, the country's leadership is resorting to fiery rhetoric to keep up their spirits after the huge blowback from the Operation Sindoor.

 

Major General Ahmed Sharif, the director general of the Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR), was the first to react to Indian strikes. Acknowledging that the Indian military has launched missiles that struck three separate locations inside Pakistan, the ISPR DG said, "India's temporary happiness will be turned into permanent sorrow."

 

The Pakistani military also said that Indian aircraft were not allowed to enter Pakistan's airspace. They claim the attacks killed eight civilians and 35 others sustained injuries in Indian strikes.  

 

"The enemy showed cowardice by firing from across the border, but let there be no doubt—we will respond. A befitting reply will be given at the time and place of our choosing," the DG ISPR declared.

 

Former chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamic political party in Pakistan,  Siraj-ul-Haq, too resorted to verbal attacks after Indian strikes. He said that although the war was initiated by India, it would be brought to an end by Pakistan, he said. The party chief also congratulated the armed forces for what he called "swiftly responding to the Indian strikes." 

 

He added that by launching military strikes against Pakistan, India has set itself on a path to destruction. "Pakistan now has both the authority and the capability to bring this conflict—started by India, to a decisive end," the Islamic leader said in a video message.

 

Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) leaders also jumped the bandwagon with messages threatening India. "We are Muslims, we do not run away from death whenever it comes," PoK Interior Minister Colonel Waqar told the media. “The cowardly enemy has attacked the civilian population in the dark of night. The enemy will be given a befitting reply." He acknowledged that Muzaffarabad's Kotli area has also been attacked.

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