Pakistan embarrassed in us: After Operation Sindoor, India sent an all -party delegation abroad to expose Pakistan on the issue of terrorism. While copying this, Pakistan also sent a delegation under the leadership of Bilawal Bhutto, where it was fiercely insulted. Promoting India’s anti-terrorism stance on the international stage, senior US Congress Brad Sherman asked the Pakistani delegation to take decisive action against the terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed and ensure the safety of minorities inside Pakistan.
While meeting the Pakistani delegation at Washington DC on Thursday (June 05, 2025), Sherman asked to release Dr. Shakeel Afridi. Dr. Afridi is a Pakistani doctor who was imprisoned to help the CIA to locate Osama bin Laden. Afridi had helped run a covart polio vaccination program to collect DNA samples from Bin Laden’s family in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Afridi, who was arrested soon after American Red on the premises of bin Laden in Abbottabad in May 2011, was sentenced to 33 years in jail in 2012. Sherman described Afridi’s release as an important step for the victims of 9/11.
What did Sherman say?
Sherman emphasized that Pakistan should make every effort to eliminate a disgusting group like Jaish and fight terrorism in the region. He especially emphasized the role of Jaish-e-Mohammed in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002. Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist Omar Saeed Sheikh was convicted for conspiring to kidnap and murder Pearl.
Sherman posted on the social media platform X, “I emphasized the importance of the Pakistani delegation to terrorism and especially the Jaish-e-Mohammed group, who killed Daniel Pearl, a resident of my constituency in 2002. Pearl’s family still lives in my district and Pakistan should make every effort to end this hate group and fight terrorism in the area.
Concern also expressed about atrocities on minorities in Pakistan
Apart from terrorism, Sherman also expressed concern about the behavior being done with religious minorities in Pakistan. He emphasized that Christians, Hindus and Ahmedia Muslims in Pakistan should be allowed to follow their religion independently and under democratic system without fear of violence, oppression, discrimination or uneven justice.
Sherman told the delegation, “Security of religious minorities in Pakistan remains an important issue.” He also emphasized on the ongoing international concerns about minority rights and religious freedom in Pakistan.
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