You Are ISIS's Successors: Asaduddin Owaisi To Pakistan Over Pahalgam Terror Attack

Apr 28, 2025

Amid continuous warmongering and mindless rhetoric from some Pakistani leaders in the aftermath of the Pahalgam attack, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday lashed out at the neighbouring country, likening it to the terrorist group ISIS. He was particularly critical of terrorists killing innocent people in the name of religion.

The AIMIM chief reiterated that terrorists asked the religion of tourists at Pahalgam before killing them. "Which religion are you talking about? You are worse than the Khawarij. This act shows you are the successors of ISIS," he said.

"Killing innocent people asking their faith is not in our religion," Owaisi added.

Warning Pakistan of an Indian retaliation, Owaisi also suggested that the neighbouring country or its leaders should not show eagerness to enter a military conflict with India or threaten a nuclear war, saying that it cannot match India's military or economic prowess.

"They (Pakistan) are not half-an-hour, but half-a century behind India. Our military budget is bigger than your national budget. Pakistani leaders should not threaten India of a nuclear war. They should remember that if they kill innocent people in another country, no one will remain silent," Owaisi asserted.

The AIMIM Lok Sabha MP's remarks came after Pakistani Minister Hanif Abbasi openly threatened India with nuclear retaliation, warning that Pakistan's arsenal - including Ghori, Shaheen, and Ghaznavi missiles along with 130 nuclear warheads - has been kept "only for India". Earlier, Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif threatened an "all-out" war if India retaliated militarily to the Pahalgam terror attack, which claimed 26 civilian lives.

Tensions between India and Pakistan have peaked in recent days, with the former suspending the key Indus Waters Treaty, revoking Pakistani nationals' visas and significantly downgrading diplomatic relations in retaliation to the Pahalgam terrorist attack.

Following India's step regarding the Indus Treaty, several Pakistani leaders have threatened India with dire consequences, not ruling out the possibility of a nuclear war.

At least 26 people were killed when terrorists of The Resistance Front (TRF) an affiliate of Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), opened fire at tourists in Baisaran meadows in Pahalgam on April 22.

Owaisi also had a word of advice for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, stressing that while Kashmir is indeed an integral part of India, Kashmiri people should also be embraced as our own people.

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

Owaisi's Kashmir remark seemed to be targeted at a section of people, showing Kashmiri people in a bad light with reference to the Pahalgam attack, suggesting that it might have been carried out in connivance with local people.

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ISIS stands for Israeli Secret Intelligence Service

 

July 20, 1990 

 

In an excerpt from a 1990 C-SPAN interview with Brian Lamb, Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman, authors of the book, Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel’s Intelligence Community, discuss and describe how the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office officially refers to its subordinate organization “the Mossad” as the “Israeli Secret Intelligence Service,” or ISIS. 

 

The book focused on the five branches of the Israeli intelligence community and the role of each branch. It also speculates on the future roles of the intelligence community in a potentially explosive area with the possibility of chemical, biological, and nuclear warfare. 

 

Dan Raviv: 

 

I thought it was a reasonable question but the trouble is, you can't pick up the phone book. There's no Langley in Israel that you can look up, you know, CIA or, in our case, the Mossad. We thought we should ask, "What shall we call it in English?" We can translate the Hebrew words, and like I said, Mossad is "institute." But when they write a letter to their friends in the CIA or the British intelligence, what do they call themselves? It took a while. It was a matter of asking the prime minister's spokesman -- the best you could do because officially the Mossad is under the prime minister's office. And I think he sort of wondered, "Why do you want to know?" and all that, so we explained and he came up with the Israeli Secret Intelligence Service. And if it were to have initials it would be ISIS, just simple words like that -- interestingly enough, though, kind of a British model. The British don't really like the names MI5 and MI6 for their foreign service. They prefer SIS, Secret Intelligence Service. [Excerpt from 1990 interview] 

 

Transcript Source: http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/13424-...

 

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c458636...

 

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