A terrorism monitoring team of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has declared the deadly Red Fort suicide car bombing in Delhi that killed 11 people the work of Al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS). The report by the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team on terrorism to the Security Council said, the attack in last November was officially attributed to AQIS.
The report said, AQIS continued to evolve from a fragmented group into a regional terrorist entity and it established logistics and financial networks, working in decentralised small, scattered cells instead of large units. It was also highlighted in the report that AQIS is trying to exploit Bangladesh to establish cells there.
Against this backdrop, the team warned that terrorist threats intensified in South Asia. AQIS was founded in 2014 by Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Based in New York, Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team comprises ten experts who track global terrorism threats from those groups and their affiliates and provide periodic reports and updates to help the committees decide on groups and individuals to be sanctioned for terror related activities. An earlier report by the team released in February said Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) was reported to be linked to an attack on the Red Fort, and the new report appears to directly pin the blame on AQIS. According to the Committee, JeM has had close ties with Al-Qaida.
