Jaish-e-Mohammed (JM) has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks and was linked to a suspected suicide car bombing near New Delhi’s Red Fort last November, nearly a month after JM chief Masood Azhar announced the creation of a women-only wing of the terror group, according to a new UN Security Council report.
Police personnel stand next to burnt vehicles at the blast site after an explosion near the Red Fort in Delhi’s Old Quarter. (AFP)The biennial report of the Security Council’s monitoring team for sanctions on al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, released this week, said JM was “reportedly involved in an attack on New Delhi’s Red Fort on November 9 that killed 15 people”.
The Sanctions Monitoring Group report noted that UN-designated terrorist Masood Azhar “formally announced the establishment of a women-only wing, Jamaat ul-Muminat (not listed), on October 8 last year, whose mission was to support terrorist attacks”. It also noted that a UN member state noted that JM had “claimed responsibility for a series of attacks”.
The report also said that another UN member state reported that the JM had “disappeared”. While the report did not identify individual member states, it appeared to be a reference to Pakistan, whose government has for years claimed that groups such as the Jamaat and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) are “defunct” because they are banned under domestic anti-terrorism laws.
The report also noted that it was reported on July 28, 2025 that “three persons were killed allegedly in connection with the attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir”.
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Last April, 26 civilians were killed in a terrorist attack in Pahalgam by LeT proxy The Resistance Front (TRF). India later targeted terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan in May in retaliation for the attack, triggering an intense four-day standoff.
1267 The Sanctions Committee monitors sanctions against al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and their affiliates. LET and JEM have been included in the committee because of their links with al-Qaeda in the 1990s.
