Pak's hypocrisy exposed again? UN report links Jaish to Red Fort terror attack

New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 12, 2026 09:44 IST

A United Nations sanctions monitoring report has linked Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) to multiple attacks, including a deadly incident near Delhi's Red Fort last year, raising fresh concerns over the group's operational status despite claims that it has been dismantled.

The findings are part of the thirty-seventh report of the UN Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, submitted under Resolution 2734 (2024) to the Security Council's 1267 Sanctions Committee, which oversees measures against ISIL (Da'esh), Al-Qaida and associated entities.

According to the report, one Member State informed the monitoring team that JeM had claimed responsibility for a series of attacks.

Among them was a reported strike on November 10 near the Red Fort in New Delhi that allegedly killed 15 people. The panel said the claims point to JeM's continued involvement in terror operations.

The report also noted organisational developments within the outfit. JeM chief Masood Azhar, a UN-designated terrorist, announced the formation of a women-only wing on October 8 last year. The unit, named Jamaat ul-Muminat, is not listed by the UN but was described in the report as being intended to support terrorist activities.

However, the monitoring team recorded contrasting assessments from Member States. While one country flagged JeM's operational role and its claims of responsibility, another described the group as 'defunct'.

Although countries are not identified in the document, Pakistan has repeatedly maintained that banned organisations such as JeM and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) are no longer functional after being proscribed under its domestic anti-terror laws.

Separately, the report referred to developments in Jammu and Kashmir, noting that three people allegedly involved in the Pahalgam attack were killed on July 28, 2025. The April 2025 attack in Pahalgam, carried out by The Resistance Front (TRF), a proxy of LeT, left 26 civilians dead and sharply escalated tensions in the region.

India later launched Operation Sindoor and targeted terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan in May, triggering a brief four-day military escalation.

The Red Fort car blast had followed a nearly three-week investigation by Jammu and Kashmir Police into what officials described as a "white-collar terror module" with links to two banned outfits -- Jaish-e-Mohammed and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGuH).

The case was subsequently taken over by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). So far, nine people have been arrested, including three doctors suspected of facilitating the network.

During the initial phase of the probe, J&K Police recovered a one-minute-and-twenty-second video clip from the phone of Umar-un-Nabi, the car-borne attacker killed in the blast. In the footage, he is allegedly seen speaking about carrying out a suicide attack, strengthening investigators' assessment of an organised terror plot rather than a lone-wolf act.

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