NEW DELHI: A new United Nations Security Council report has accused Jaish-e-Mohammed of carrying out a series of attacks and linked it to a car bombing near New Delhi’s Red Fort in November last year.In the biannual report of the Security Council’s Sanctions Monitoring Group on Al Qaeda and Islamic State, the Security Council said the group was “reportedly linked to the November 9 attack on the Red Fort in New Delhi that killed 15 people.”“One Member State noted that Jaish-e-Mohammed claimed responsibility for a series of attacks that were also reportedly linked to the November 9 attack on the Red Fort in New Delhi that killed 15 people,” the report released this week said.The report also pointed out that terrorists designated by the United Nations Masood Azhar The establishment of a women’s organization was announced on October 8 last year to support terrorist attacks.
“On October 8, Jaish-e-Mohammed leader Mohammad Masoud Azhar Alvi formally announced the establishment of Jamaat ul-Muminat (unlisted), a female-only organization aimed at supporting terrorist attacks,” the report said.“Another Member State reported that Jaish-e-Mohammed had disbanded. Separately, on July 28, three persons allegedly involved in an attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, were reportedly killed,” the statement added.A car bombing near Delhi’s Red Fort on November 10 killed 15 people and injured dozens more, triggering a high-level investigation that revealed the existence of a sophisticated “white collar” terror network linked to Jaish-e-Mohammed.Even before the bombing, several arrests had been made in multiple states, and investigators had begun piecing together evidence of an interstate terrorist module.After the explosion, the National Intelligence Service discovered that the incident was related to previous arrests. As the investigation deepened, a series of new circumstances emerged.The 1267 Sanctions Committee oversees sanctions against al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and their affiliates. Lashkar-e-Taiba and Tehreek-e-Insaf were brought under the council’s jurisdiction because of their links to al-Qaeda dating back to the 1990s.
