As investigators try to join the dots to unravel the plot behind the blast that rocked Delhi earlier this week, there appears to be a clear link to Jaish-e-Mohammed, a Pakistan-based terrorist group. Information available in public is limited but the Jaish link indicates an external dimension, says Ramanathan Kumar, former Special Secretary of Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW).

More evidence will emerge as time progresses but I think it is also not wise to let Pakistan off the hook, Kumar told StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale. He pointed to some key questions—If there was external sponsorship, to what extent? Was it externally inspired, externally guided, externally operationalised and what were the degrees of control by handlers in Pakistan.

In the run-up to the Delhi b

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