Apart from the possible Pakistan angle, Indian authorities face the challenge of assessing the security situation in the national capital

xMonday evening’s blast near the Red Fort Metro station in Old Delhi is a terrorist attack by the looks of it. This was no accident. A slow-moving i20 Hyundai hatchback exploded, killing over a dozen people and injuring a core and more seriously. The media, especially the television channels, were running ahead of story, and tried to connect it with the arrest of several individuals, including doctors, from Faridabad, and others in Kashmir, who were nabbed with 2,900 kg of ammonium nitrate. The arrests were made by the Jammu and Kashmir police after posters of the Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) appeared in Srinagar warning of a terror attack.

The investigating

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