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The Uri Terror attack which took the country to the storm last month, is now back into the news, after Pakistan based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba has claimed responsibility for it.

According to the posters widely circulated on the social media, funeral prayers in absentia for one of the Uri attackers, organized by LeT's parent organization Jamaat-ud-Dawa, are to be held in Gujranwala of Punjab, Pakistan. The poster revealed that JuD chief Hafiz Saeed will address the gathering after the prayers.

"Funeral prayers in absentia for Mujahid Bhai Abu Siraqa Muhammad Anas martyr for having killed 177 Hindu soldiers in Kashmir," the poster further said. The funeral is at Sadabahar Nursery near Bada Nala Nawab Chowk Girjakh Gujranwala. Since Pakistan consistently denied the role of its Kashmir-centric terror groups in the Uri attack, the present claim earned significance.

Muhammad Aamir Hussaini, a staff reporter with the Frontier Post in Pakistan said, “After such posters and such events organized by JUD, what will be authenticity of claims made by the Pakistani Foreign Office in front of the International community. This poster shows that Hafiz Saeed is working in Punjab with the consent of the civilian government and in this case the military establishment, he added.

JuD, after the poster was widely circulated online, claimed that it was a hoax, Pakistani Reuters correspondent Asad Hashim tweeted. However, former editor Dawn, Abbas Nasir in a tweet response confirmed the veracity of the poster and said that the funeral prayers have now been postponed.