Kamal Ghorui
NEW DELHI: A new UN Security Council report has blamed Jaish-e-Mohammed for the carrying out series of attacks, linking it to car bombing near the Red Fort in New Delhi in November last year.In a biannual report from the Security Council’s monitoring team for sanctions on al-Qaeda and Islamic State, the security council said that the outfit was “reported to be linked to an attack on the Red Fort in New Delhi on 9 November that killed 15 people”.“One Member State noted that Jaish-i-Mohammed had claimed responsibility for a series of attacks. It was also reported to be linked to an attack on the Red Fort in New Delhi on 9 November that killed 15 people,” the report which was released this week said.The report also noted that UN designated terrorist Masood Azhar has on October 8 last year announced the establishment of women wing which was aimed at supporting terrorist attacks.
“On 8 October, Jaish-i-Mohammed leader Mohammed Masood Azhar Alvi formally announced the establishment of a women-only wing, Jamaat ul-Muminat (not listed), which was aimed at supporting terrorist attacks,” the report said.“Another Member State reported that Jaish-i-Mohammed was defunct. Separately, it was reported that on 28 July, three individuals allegedly involved in the attack perpetrated in Pahalgam, in Jammu and Kashmir, were killed,” it added.On November 10, a car explosion near Delhi’s Red Fort killed 15 people and injured dozens of others, triggering a high-level investigation that revealed the existence of a sophisticated ‘white-collar’ terror network with ties to Jaish-e-Mohammed.Even before the blast, several arrests had been made across multiple states, and investigators had begun to piece together evidence of an interstate terror module.Following the explosion, the NIA found that the incident was connected to earlier arrests, leading to a series of new revelations as the probe deepened.The 1267 Sanctions Committee monitors sanctions on al-Qaeda, Islamic State and their affiliates. LeT and JeM are included under the purview of the committee because of their links to al-Qaeda dating back to the 1990s.
