London: A senior Pakistan Army official was captured on camera making threatening gestures toward the protesters in London on Friday as members of the Indian community staged a demonstration outside the Pakistan High Commission in London to denounce the terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir.

Colonel Taimur Rahat, a Pakistan Army and Air Advisor at the High Commission in London, was seen publicly threatening Indian community protesters with a neck slash gesture in recordings that have gone viral on social media.

In response to the terror incident in Pahalgam, more than 500 British Hindus demonstrated outside the Pakistani embassy on Friday. The demonstrators, who were carrying Indian flags, posters, and placards, conveyed their profound grief over the deaths of innocent people and called for the victims to get justice. They sang anti-terrorist chants and denounced Pakistan for aiding and harboring terrorist organizations that carry out similar assaults.

The protesters denounced the Pakistan High Commission for making offensive remarks and playing loud music at a time of mourning. “Today’s protest was a call for justice and accountability,” the organizer stated in a statement.

The tone-deaf and disgusting behavior of officials in the Pakistan Embassy playing loud celebration music during the demonstration, however, was a troubling and terrible turn of events that further aggravated an already severe situation. The embassy’s actions demonstrated a startling lack of empathy and basic decency, even as the world grieves for the victims. In the midst of a national tragedy, organizers denounce the Embassy’s callous actions. The world has condemned this horrific terror act, which is purportedly the work of extremists backed by Pakistan. Families on pilgrimage endured horrific attacks and lost their lives due to their religious convictions.

“We Indians have gathered here to hold a protest against Pakistan,” one Indian diaspora member told ANI. Pakistan’s terror factory has resulted in the slaughter of 26 Indians in Pahalgam. We’ve come together to voice our opposition to it.

According to another protester, the “heinous terror attack” in Pahalgam has caused agitation among the Indian population residing in the UK.

An Indo-Jewish protester told ANI that the Pakistani government encourages terrorism. According to him, the Jewish community is always in favor of Indians because they have a common enemy: “Islamist radicalization.” He said that the Pahalgam assault made him think of the 2023 Hamas strike on Israel.

Because we share the same enemy—Islamist radicalization—we have a sizable Jewish population here that consistently backs India, he continued. Everything is the same. On October 7th, Israel faced a similar situation, and witnessing it unfold in India prompted me to reflect: terrorists are targeting innocent people, and the Pakistani Islamist dictatorship is enabling this terrorism. We will always stand in solidarity with our fellow Indians. Modi is also doing a fantastic job.

“This is provocation, not simply insensitivity. The Pakistani government has transgressed all human and diplomatic bounds. One of the rally organizers said, “Pakistan is complicit in terror if they cannot condemn it.”

The Indian community demanded that Pakistan publicly denounce the killings and pledge to stop sponsoring terrorism, that the UK government call Pakistan’s High Commissioner for an official explanation, and that diplomatic pressure be used to bring the criminals and their financiers to justice.

On April 22, terrorists assaulted visitors in Pahalgam’s Baisaran Meadow, killing 25 Indians and one Nepali while injuring a number of others.

Following the terrorist attack, the Indian government announced several diplomatic actions, including closing the Integrated Check Post (ICP) in Attari, suspending Pakistani nationals’ access to the SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme (SVES), allowing them to return to their country within 40 hours, and lowering the number of officers in both sides’ High Commissions.

Following the Pahalgam assault, India also terminated the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty. With the help of the World Bank, which is also a party to the pact, India and Pakistan negotiated the Indus Waters pact for nine years before signing it in 1960.