New Delhi: Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed was “reported to be linked” to the 10 November 2025 blast near Red Fort in New Delhi, a United Nations report released this month said, while also documenting the group’s announcement of establishing a women’s wing.
The UN counter-terrorism monitoring team’s report to the UN Security Council’s 1267 Sanctions Committee detailed how JeM leader Mohammed Masood Azhar Alvi formally announced on 8 October 2025 the creation of Jamaat ul-Muminat. This, the report said, was the JeM’s women’s wing “aimed at supporting terrorist attacks”.
“One Member State noted that Jaish-e-Mohammed had claimed responsibility for a series of attacks. It was also reported to be linked to an attack on the Red Fort in New Delhi on 9 (10) November that killed 15 people,” the report said.
The 1267 Sanctions Committee oversees targeted sanctions against terror outfits and associated groups or individuals. It makes these decisions based on the monitoring team’s reports.
The UN Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team is a 10-member expert group, which periodically assesses threats from terror groups and reports its findings to the Security Council. It was first instituted in 2004 with the mandate of gathering intelligence from various states and agencies.
The report, submitted under Resolution 2734 (2024), comes as JeM continues to claim responsibility for multiple attacks despite differing international assessments of its operational status.
New Delhi has maintained that JeM, designated by the UN as an al-Qaeda-associated entity, has been involved in several attacks in India, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir. These include the 14 February 2019 suicide attack on a Central Reserve Police Force convoy in Pulwama that killed 40 personnel, and the 2025 Pahalgam attack carried out by The Resistance Front, a Lashkar-e-Taeba offshoot, in which 26 people died.
Fifteen people were killed in the 10 November Red Fort attack.
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Differing claims
The monitoring team’s report referred to contrasting assessments from ‘member states’. While one country highlighted JeM’s continued operational role and claims of responsibility, another described the group as “defunct”, the report said.
Although no country was named, Pakistan has maintained that organisations such as JeM and Lashkar-e-Taeba are no longer active and are not operating from its territory following action by its authorities.
Separately, the report referred to developments in Jammu and Kashmir, noting that three individuals allegedly “involved in the Pahalgam attack” were killed on 28 July 2025.
“Another Member State reported that Jaish-i-Mohammed was defunct. Separately, it was reported that on 28 July, three individuals allegedly involved in the attack perpetrated in Pahalgam, in Jammu and Kashmir were killed,” the report said.
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