Safety personnel seen on the blast sSite close to Purple Fort, in New Delhi. File
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A report by the U.N. Safety Council sanctions monitoring staff has famous that Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed was reported to be linked to a terror assault on the Purple Fort in New Delhi final November that killed 15 folks.
“One Member State famous that Jaish-e-Mohammed had claimed accountability for a sequence of assaults. It was additionally reported to be linked to an assault on the Purple Fort in New Delhi on November 9 that killed 15 folks,” the thirty seventh report of the Analytical Help and Sanctions Monitoring Crew submitted to the Safety Council 1267 Sanctions Committee regarding ISIL and al-Qaeda mentioned.
The report, issued in United Nations, added that on October 8, JeM chief Mohammed Masood Azhar Alvi “formally introduced the institution of a women-only wing, Jamaat ul-Muminat, which was geared toward supporting terrorist assaults.”
Whilst one other member state reported that Jaish-e-Mohammed was defunct, the report added that “Individually, it was reported that on July 28, three people allegedly concerned within the assault perpetrated in Pahalgam, in Jammu and Kashmir, had been killed.”
A lethal and high-intensity explosion had rocked the Purple Fort space in New Delhi, killing about 15 folks and injuring many extra. The explosion had ripped via a slow-moving automotive at a visitors sign close to the Purple Fort metro station.
At his weekly briefing in New Delhi on Thursday (February 12), Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal was requested for a touch upon the UNSC report.
“This explicit report that you simply confer with, it’s obtainable within the public area. It’s on-line. This was the thirty seventh Report of the Analytical Help and Sanctions Monitoring Crew. This was revealed on February 4, 2026,” he mentioned.
“And, we have now seen that they’ve taken on board our inputs, India’s inputs in regard to our concern on cross-border terrorism, and likewise as to how we will strengthen the worldwide battle towards terrorism,” the MEA spokesperson mentioned.
The UNSC report additional mentioned that Al-Qaida within the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) remained lively in south-eastern Afghanistan, the place the Haqqani Community exerts appreciable affect. Osama Mahmoud, the “emir” of AQIS, and Yahya Ghauri, his deputy, had been reported to be in Kabul, with the media cell of AQIS primarily based in Herat.
“There have been considerations that AQIS was more and more centered on exterior operations. Such operations would probably be unclaimed or deniable operations, maybe as a part of the umbrella group Ittihad-ul-Mujahideen Pakistan…in order to not create difficulties for the Taliban as hosts of AQIS,” it mentioned.
The report added that ISIL-Ok was lively primarily in northern Afghanistan, significantly Badakhshan, and areas near the Pakistani border. It continued to develop its community of cells to venture a menace regionally and past.
“Aggressive propaganda by ISIL-Ok in Central Asian languages expanded its audience. It sought to use points such because the Gaza and Israel battle to advertise recruitment and financing,” it added.
Printed – February 13, 2026 09:41 am IST