US Senator Rick Scott has raised questions over Islamabad's mediator role in the US-Iran ceasefire deal, accusing Islamabad of "hypocrisy" after Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif attended Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's funeral in Tehran.

Scott shared a video on X where Sharif is heard giving tribute to the 86-year-old Shia cleric, who was killed on February 28 on the first day of the US-Israeli war against Iran, at his funeral in Tehran.

The footage showed Sharif describing Khamenei as "a great scholar and leader whom millions of Muslims will remember." He further claimed, "Pakistan and Iran will march together under all circumstances."

What US Lawmaker SaidIn the post accompanying Sharif's clip, the US lawmaker revisited Pakistan's endorsement of terror in the past and claimed that Washington is keeping a close eye on Islamabad. 

"We need to remember who Pakistan really is in the middle of all this. We're talking about a country where bin Laden hid out for a decade, where they selectively enforce lopsided blasphemy laws to persecute Christians, and where the prime minister just praised the genocidal mass-murdering tyrant that used to run Iran," he said in the post. 

Source:Ndtv