Pakistani Leader Admits Role In Delhi Bomb Blast; Says ‘Warned To Hit India At Red Fort’ – Read | India News

The former Pakistani Prime Minister claimed that his country was directly involved in the car bomb attack outside Delhi’s Red Fort on November 10, killing 15 people and injuring many others. Chaudhary Anwarul Haq, who served as the ‘Prime Minister’ of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir until two days ago, told the PoK Assembly that he had earlier warned India of retaliation.

“I have told you before that if you continue to shed the blood of Balochistan, we will respond from the Red Fort to the forests of Kashmir. By the grace of God, we have done this… our warriors have done this,” he claimed.

In his speech, Haq reiterated that he had forewarned such an attack and boasted that “our brave men did it”, going so far as to say that India could not account for the losses. The Pakistani government did not officially react to Haq’s remarks. However, Defense Minister Khawaja Asif recently asserted that Islamabad cannot rule out the possibility of “all-out war” with India, adding that Pakistan remains on high alert in the face of rising regional tensions.

Pakistan has long accused India of fueling instability in Balochistan; New Delhi denies this claim, calling it an attempt to divert attention from Pakistan-backed cross-border terrorism. India has consistently denied involvement in violence in the state.

Meanwhile, intelligence inputs have revealed that the Red Fort bombing, carried out using a Hyundai i20 filled with ammonium nitrate fuel oil, and the militant cell behind it are linked to Jaish-e-Mohammed, one of several extremist groups supported by Pakistan.

On the other hand, high-level security meetings were held to discuss strategy changes. In one of the meetings, the issue of electronic intelligence and how it needed to be improved to flag domestic terrorist activities was raised. This was one of the major concerns raised by authorities after investigations into the Red Fort blast revealed that members of the Faridabad module had managed to stay off the radar for nearly three years.

The module was installed and a series of attack plans were prepared in and around Delhi three years ago. Since then, members of the Faridabad module, mostly led by doctors, had managed to hide every activity and avoid coming under the agencies’ scanners.

The use of Electronic Intelligence can monitor cross-border activities. However, local modules do not have any electronic trace and hence Intelligence agencies find it very difficult to track such activities. This is why the Faridabad module can run without being tracked.

When it comes to cross-border activities, institutions can gather information using electronic intelligence. In the Faridabad module, most of the conversations took place within the group. Members of the module were in touch with some people in Jammu and Kashmir but this was not a cross-border activity. (With inputs from IANS)