Despite foiling major plots, the rising involvement of educated professionals in terror poses fresh risks.

xIt is to the credit of India’s security agencies that they may have neutralised hundreds of terror plots before their culmination in the last couple of decades. In fact, available evidence suggests that the Delhi car blast was hastened because a very large conspiracy was undone and one of the participants in this ghoulish venture was thought to be fleeing once he became aware of his colleagues having been corralled.

Even so, a single catastrophic event that took place with one conspirator escaping the dragnet was sufficient for it to be pinned as an intelligence failure on the part of the security agencies. And it is the failure to stop a terror event outside Jammu & Kashmir, the r

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