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Red Fort Bomb "Could Be Start of Nationwide Terror Campaign but This Time We're Better Prepared"

Red Fort bomb "could be the start of a nationwide terror campaign but this time we're much better prepared": Ajai Sahni, Executive Director, South Asia Terrorism Portal to Karan Thapar for The Wire. .......................................... In an interview to discuss critical questions thrown up by Monday's terror attack in the Red Fort area of Delhi, the Executive Director of the Institute for Conflict Management and the South Asia Terrorism Portal says that the Red Fort bomb "could be the start of a nationwide terror campaign" but, if it is, this time India is much better prepared. He adds: "The Red Fort blast demonstrates that a residual risk of Islamist terrorism will remain, and is, indeed, likely to grow.” Ajai Sahni points out that the Red Fort attack was the first major Islamist terrorist attack, involving three or more fatalities, outside Jammu and Kashmir since the Patna bombings of 2013. In the interview, he explains why he believes this could be "a wider strategic shift" in terrorism. I will leave you to see the interview to hear his reasons. Dr. Sahni also believes there is a danger or risk that an emboldened Pakistan, encouraged by the geopolitical outcome of the Pahalgam massacre and Operation Sindoor and also strengthened by its relationship with America and China, might seek to provoke terror attacks through its proxies in India. Since terror has come down very substantially in Jammu and Kashmir - but we haven't by any means reached zero terrorism in the Union Territory - Pakistan might seek to encourage its proxies to carry out terror attacks in the rest of the country. Dr. Sahni also believes that at the moment we have "a global environment of geopolitical fragility in South Asia”, primarily because of a deepening relationship between Pakistan and Bangladesh, a country increasingly hostile to India and where the hostility could increase after Bangladesh's February elections. So there is also a risk that we could see the recurrence of the problem we experienced in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when Pakistani terror groups and the Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami in Bangladesh combined to target India both from the east and west. Dr. Sahni says the reason why the Modi government has not so far officially declared the Red Fort blast a terror attack, despite the fact the NIA has been brought in and a case has been filed under UAPA, is because of its pronouncements after Operation Sindoor which have "painted them into a corner". If they declare it a terrorist attack they would have to treat it as "an act of war". I will stop there. I will leave you to find out the rest from the interview itself. Join The Wire's Youtube Membership and get exclusive content, member-only emojis, live interaction with The Wire's founders, editors and reporters and much more. Memberships to The Wire Crew start at Rs 89/month.    / @thewirenews