UNSC panel notes Pak-based terror group JeM’s reported link to Red Fort attack

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Security unit   seen astatine  the blast sSite adjacent   Red Fort,  successful  New Delhi. File

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A study by the U.N. Security Council sanctions monitoring squad has noted that Pakistan-based panic radical Jaish-e-Mohammed was reported to beryllium linked to a terror onslaught connected the Red Fort successful New Delhi past November that killed 15 people.

“One Member State noted that Jaish-e-Mohammed had claimed work for a bid of attacks. It was besides reported to beryllium linked to an onslaught connected the Red Fort successful New Delhi connected November 9 that killed 15 people,” the 37th study of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team submitted to the Security Council 1267 Sanctions Committee concerning ISIL and al-Qaeda said.

The report, issued successful United Nations, added that connected October 8, JeM person Mohammed Masood Azhar Alvi “formally announced the constitution of a women-only wing, Jamaat ul-Muminat, which was aimed astatine supporting violent attacks.”

Even arsenic different subordinate authorities reported that Jaish-e-Mohammed was defunct, the study added that “Separately, it was reported that connected July 28, 3 individuals allegedly progressive successful the onslaught perpetrated successful Pahalgam, successful Jammu and Kashmir, were killed.”

A deadly and high-intensity detonation had rocked the Red Fort country successful New Delhi, sidesplitting astir 15 people and injuring galore more. The detonation had ripped done a slow-moving car astatine a postulation awesome adjacent the Red Fort metro station.

At his play briefing successful New Delhi connected Thursday (February 12), Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal was asked for a remark connected the UNSC report.

"This peculiar study that you notation to, it is disposable successful the nationalist domain. It is online. This was the 37th Report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team. This was published connected February 4, 2026," helium said.

"And, we person seen that they person taken connected committee our inputs, India's inputs successful respect to our interest connected cross-border terrorism, and besides arsenic to however we tin fortify the planetary combat against terrorism," the MEA spokesperson said.

The UNSC study further said that Al-Qaida successful the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) remained progressive successful south-eastern Afghanistan, wherever the Haqqani Network exerts sizeable influence. Osama Mahmoud, the “emir” of AQIS, and Yahya Ghauri, his deputy, were reported to beryllium successful Kabul, with the media compartment of AQIS based successful Herat.

“There were concerns that AQIS was progressively focused connected outer operations. Such operations would apt beryllium unclaimed oregon deniable operations, possibly arsenic portion of the umbrella radical Ittihad-ul-Mujahideen Pakistan…so arsenic not to make difficulties for the Taliban arsenic hosts of AQIS,” it said.

The study added that ISIL-K was progressive chiefly successful bluish Afghanistan, peculiarly Badakhshan, and areas adjacent to the Pakistani border. It continued to make its web of cells to task a menace regionally and beyond.

“Aggressive propaganda by ISIL-K successful Central Asian languages expanded its people audience. It sought to exploit issues specified arsenic the Gaza and Israel struggle to beforehand recruitment and financing,” it added.

Published - February 13, 2026 09:41 americium IST

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