The highly sophisticated 'white-collar' terror cell, spearheaded by a group of medical practitioners and recently dismantled by the Jammu and Kashmir Police, had been actively seeking a suicide bomber since last year. The key architect, Dr Umar Nabi, was relentlessly pushing this agenda, according to officials cited by news agency PTI .

Interrogation of a co-accused who was subsequently detained indicated that Umar — who is believed to have been killed while driving the explosives-laden car that blew up near the Red Fort on 10 November — was a "hardcore radical" and insisted that a suicide bomber was essential for their operations.

Subsequently, the Srinagar Police swiftly dispatched a team to Qazigund in south Kashmir and detained Jasir, alias 'Danish', a graduate with a bac

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