On the evening of November 10, a car exploded at a red-light junction near the sixth gate of the historic Red Fort in New Delhi, killing at least eight people and injuring over 20. The Indian government initially responded with caution, but when evidence began to pile up in the public domain, it then declared the blast a “terrorist incident” and invoked stringent counterterror laws.
Investigators now believe the device was not a classic suicide bomb but rather a panic-triggered explosion linked to a broader terror module that had just been disrupted.
Less than 24 hours later, on November 11, the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, was rocked by a suicide bombing outside a district court complex. Twelve people were killed and dozens wounded in what Pakistani officials are calling the worst attack in the city in nearly a decade.
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