New Delhi, Aug. 13 -- The car bomb blast near the Red Fort in the Capital in November 2025 has been "officially attributed" to al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), which is also trying to establish cells in Bangladesh, according to a new report from a UN Security Council body monitoring counter-terrorism sanctions. The biannual report from the Security Council's monitoring team for sanctions on al-Qaeda and Islamic State, made public this week, noted that both terror groups have "shown a sustained interest over many years in developing chemical and biological weapons". The report noted at the end of 2025, Indian authorities had arrested three people, including a doctor, who had been tasked by an Islamic State cell abroad to develop ricin, a type of poison. In May this year, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a chargesheet against 10 individuals in connection with the car bomb explosion near Red Fort on November 10, 2025, that named 10 accused linked to Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGuH), an affiliate of AQIS. The blast, involving a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, caused 11 fatalities, numerous injuries and significant damage to property. The NIA's investigation identified Umar un-Nabi, a former assistant professor of medicine at Al-Falah University in Faridabad who died in the blast, as the primary perpetrator. The UN sanctions monitoring team's report said, "The attack in November 2025 on the Red Fort in Delhi was officially attributed to AQIS. There was some concern about AQIS trying to exploit Bangladesh to establish cells there."The report noted that AQIS has "continued to evolve from a fragmented group into a regional terrorist entity; it established logistics and financial networks, working in decentralised small, scattered cells instead of large units". "The AQIS leadership reportedly remained in Kabul, having been issued tazkiras (national IDs), suggesting close cooperation between the Taliban and AQIS," the report said....