LeT commander confirms destruction of Muridke camp during Operation Sindoor

Months after India’s precision strikes on nine terror camps across Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, a viral video of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Qaasim has surfaced.

The video exposes Islamabad’s denials of the strikes by confirming the destruction of the Markaz Taiba terror camp in Muridke in Pakistan's Punjab.

In the viral video, Qaasim, standing amidst the rubble of the destroyed camp, admitted that the place had trained numerous terrorists, including “Mujahideens” and “Talaba”, who he claimed went on to achieve "victory" (Faiz), while vowing to rebuild a larger facility there.

"I am standing in front of the Markaz Taiba in Muridke. It was destroyed in the attack [during Operation Sindoor]. We will rebuild it and make it even bigger. From here, big names in Mujahideen got trained and achieved Faiz (victory)," the LeT commander said in the video.

The revelation came days after Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) commander Masood Ilyas Kashmiri, in another viral video, admitted that the strikes on Markaz Subhan Allah at Bahawalpur, JeM's operation headquarters, during Operation Sindoor had killed the family of JeM Masood Azhar.

"After sacrificing everything, on May 7, the family members of Masood Azhar were torn into pieces in Bahawalpur," Kashmiri said at an event in the viral video, validating India's assertion that the attack hit key terrorist elements.

Qaasim, in another viral clip, also brazenly urged the youth to join the Daura-e-Suffa training programme at the site, which includes basic combat training and jihadi indoctrination, further exposing the camp's purpose.

Markaz Taiba, Muridke, established in 2000, is the most crucial training centre of LeT in Pakistan. The complex holds arms and physical training facilities, as well as radicalisation for terror entities, both from within Pakistan and abroad.