AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has issued a sharp condemnation of Dr Umar Nabi, the Pulwama-based doctor who carried out the November 10 car blast near Delhi’s Red Fort, calling his act “terrorism and nothing else.” Owaisi’s comments came after a video surfaced in which Umar attempted to justify suicide bombing by framing it as a “martyrdom operation” in Islam, claiming the concept was “misunderstood.”
Owaisi rejected this reasoning outright, stating that suicide is strictly forbidden in Islam and that the killing of innocent people is a grave sin. He emphasised that such actions violate both religious teachings and Indian law. Posting on X, he wrote that Umar’s justification was neither ambiguous nor misunderstood: “This is terrorism and nothing else.”
Turning his criticism toward the government, Owaisi questioned Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s earlier assurance in Parliament that no Kashmiri had joined any terror group in the preceding six months. He asked how the radicalised module behind the Red Fort blast went undetected, and who should be held accountable for this intelligence failure.
The newly surfaced video shows Dr Umar speaking fluently in English and presenting suicide attacks as religiously sanctioned “martyrdom operations,” which investigators say reflects his deeply radicalised mindset. According to officials, the November 10 car blast was accidental—Umar reportedly intended to carry out a much larger suicide bombing later.
The explosion killed 14 people and injured more than 20 others, sending shockwaves through one of Delhi’s most crowded zones. Investigators believe Umar was the most ideologically extreme member of the “white-collar” Faridabad terror module, which allegedly operated under the influence of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM). The module is believed to have included nine to ten individuals, including five to six doctors working at Al-Falah University, who allegedly used their medical credentials to procure chemicals and bomb-making materials.
In a parallel development, the Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday arrested Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui—founder of Al-Falah University and chairman of the Al-Falah Group—in a money laundering case. Authorities are also examining his potential links to terror financing as part of a broader probe into the module’s operations.
