The UN Security Council 1267 sanctions monitoring committee report has referenced Jaish-e-Mohammed’s (JeM) connection to the Red Fort attack in New Delhi on November 9, 2025. The report highlights that JeM chief Masood Azhar Alvi formally announced the formation of Jamaat ul-Muminat, a women-only wing, emphasizing the group’s intent to support terrorist attacks.
Pakistan, however, asserted that JeM was “defunct.” This is not the first instance of such claims by Islamabad. Days after the Pahalgam attack in Kashmir, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif had acknowledged in international media his country’s support for terrorist organisations. “Well, we have been doing this dirty work for United States for three decades,” he stated. During the same interview with news outlet Sky News, he also claimed that terror group “Lashkar-e-Taiba doesn’t exist in Pakistan anymore; it is extinct.”
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This pattern of Pakistan admitting to “dirty work” while subsequently declaring terrorist organisations defunct has been noted previously. The report published on February 3 further stated that “on 28 July, three individuals allegedly involved in the attack perpetrated in Pahalgam, in Jammu and Kashmir, were killed.”
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