Bashaarat Masood

As investigators peeled the layers of the terror module that’s now been linked to the Red Fort blast, an alert was sounded in Delhi and the National Capital Region on Wednesday – to find a red Ford EcoSport, believed to be owned by the prime suspect Umar ... See more

On November 7, three days before an i20 car exploded near the Red Fort, Dr Umar Nabi Bhat, the man said to be driving the vehicle, called his sister-in-law in Pulwama to say that he would return home in three days. On Monday night, as the family in Koil v... See more

The probe into the Red Fort blast so far suggests it was the handiwork of the same “transnational and interstate” terror module that was busted by the Jammu and Kashmir police days earlier, with roots in the Valley’s Pulwama district, it is learnt. Accord... See more

Bashaarat Masood is a Special Correspondent with The Indian Express. He has been covering Jammu and Kashmir, especially the conflict-ridden Kashmir valley, for two decades. Bashaarat joined The Indian Express after completing his Masters in Mass Communica... See more

Police in J&K said two doctors from Kashmir who were arrested in Haryana’s Faridabad and Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur in recent days were allegedly part of an “interstate and transnational terror module”, which worked for the terror groups Jaish-e-Moham... See more