The Pakistani leaders who met the US House Foreign Affairs Committee were asked to look into extra judicial killings in Sindh, the home province of the delegation’s head Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.
A Pakistani delegation led by former Pakistani Foreign Affairs Minister Bilawal Bhutto has been in a US visit to gather support for their military actions after India eliminated between 9-11 terror camps in Pakistan, PoK and Gilgit Baltistan.
Brad Sherman, a Congressman and a senior member of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee highlighted the extra-judicial killings in Sindh which as of now has reportedly crossed 8,000 instances, the figures being reported by Pakistan’s own human rights body. It is believed that the figures could be multiple times higher given the weak state of human rights in the country.
The same Pakistani delegation has also been snubbed over the killing of Daniel Pearl, a US journalist kidnapped and killed in Pakistan on 1 February 2002 by Jaish e Mohammed, the same terror group that has been responsible for terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir.
Terrorism as a State Policy in Pakistan
Terror has been a key foreign policy took in Pakistan starting since 1947 when several armed groups were used to invade the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir. Over the years, these terrorist groups were used in key terror incidents across the country such as 1993 Mumbai blasts, 2001 Parliament attacks, 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, 2017 Uri attacks, 2019 Pulwama attacks, 2025 Pahalgam massacre and several others.
On several instances Pakistanis have claimed to disown the extra-state elements but they also have accepted that terrorists were indeed used by the Pakistani Army against India. On one interview with Sky News last month, Pak Defence Minister Khwaja Aasif has accepted the usage of terror groups against India saying that the Americans knew well of them.
