Suicide bomb blast in Islamabad hours after Delhi terror attack: Is it Field Marshal Asim Munir’s false flag operation to avert Operation Sindoor 2.0?

They say lightning never strikes the same place twice. But terrorism, especially the Pakistani variety, has a knack for doing exactly that, and then blaming the weather.

Just hours after the Delhi Red Fort car bombing that killed nine innocent people, a powerful explosion ripped through the Islamabad Judicial Complex, killing twelve. Two capitals, two blasts, two “coincidences” and one unmistakable puppeteer in Rawalpindi’s GHQ.

Field Marshal Asim Munir, the self-promoted Caesar of a collapsing state, seems to have pressed the panic button. Because if India’s Operation Sindoor 2.0 is indeed loading, then the Islamabad blast may well have been Pakistan’s version of “self-harm to gain sympathy.”

Too timed to be a coincidence

The timeline of events itself reads like a script, not chance. The Red Fort blast occurred on Monday evening around 6:45 pm. Barely 18 hours later, at 12:39 pm on Tuesday, the Islamabad court complex was rocked by a suicide explosion. Both attacks featured suicide bombers, both used ANFO-based explosives, and both unfolded precisely as India began dismantling a sprawling Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) doctor module spanning Faridabad, Kashmir, and Uttar Pradesh.

This isn’t coincidence. This is choreography. For decades, Pakistan’s deep state has mastered the art of blowing up its own backyard whenever it needs to play the victim card. And right now, Asim Munir desperately needs to look like a victim. Because after the Delhi blast, every intelligence intercept, every seized device, every investigation trail and explosives point directly toward Pakistan-backed JeM, a terror outfit Munir has coddled for years as his personal proxy. In fact, JeM terrorists killed in Operation Sindoor were granted state funeral, attended by senior Pakistani Army officials.

And with Operation Sindoor 2.0 now a matter of when, not if, Islamabad needed a diversion, fast.

Munir’s nightmare: Operation Sindoor 2.0

To understand Munir’s desperation, one must revisit May 2025, when India’s Operation Sindoor shredded Pakistan’s terror ecosystem in one precise, calculated stroke. The operation flattened nine terror camps, ten military bases, and multiple radar stations. It also humiliated the Pakistan Air Force when India’s BrahMos-A cruise missiles struck the Nur Khan airbase, just kilometres away from Pakistan’s nuclear command.

That single strike did more than destroy infrastructure; it destroyed illusions. It told Pakistan, in no uncertain terms: Your nukes no longer shield your terror.

The fallout was catastrophic for Islamabad. The military establishment broke down under pressure and begged Washington for a ceasefire. India, confident and resolute, refused to even acknowledge Pakistan’s calls for “de-escalation.” This is why Pakistan has bent over itself to talk up US President Donald Trump. The inordinate charm offensive of the US President is an admission that Operation Sindoor was a roaring success that brought Pakistan on its knees.

Asim Munir, the man who presided over this disaster, survived politically only by promoting himself to Field Marshal, hoping a new rank could erase old failures. But now, after the Delhi Red Fort attack, clearly linked to JeM operatives under ISI supervision, Munir knows India’s response could be swift and unforgiving.

And this time, it won’t stop at Balakot or Bahawalpur.

From doctors to bombers: JeM link to Faridabad terror module and Delhi blast

The Delhi attack wasn’t random. It was the last convulsion of a dying network, triggered in panic after Indian agencies busted a major JeM-linked module in Faridabad. This wasn’t a ragtag group of radicals; it was an organised network of doctors, academics, and medical professionals radicalised into running a terror logistics chain.

At the heart of this network was Jamaat-ul-Mominaat, the newly launched women’s wing of JeM, headed by Masood Azhar’s sister, Sadia Azhar, from Bahawalpur. Her key India operative, Dr Shaheena Shahid from Lucknow, was arrested with arms and ammonium nitrate. Her handler, Dr Muzammil Shakeel, a Pulwama native teaching at Al Falah University, Faridabad, was caught with over 2,900 kg of explosive material.

When one of their top operatives, Umar Mohammad, realised the network had been compromised, he allegedly detonated the car bomb near Delhi’s Red Fort, killing nine people. It was a suicidal act of defiance, but it also exposed the depth of Pakistan’s reach inside India’s urban centres.

So much for the endlessly repeated myth that “terror has no religion.”

The Islamabad blast: A false flag in broad daylight

Now comes the twist that even Pakistani journalists are whispering about. Hours after the Red Fort explosion, a suicide bomber “mysteriously” appeared outside Islamabad’s judicial complex, lingered for nearly ten minutes, and then blew himself up near a police van. The explosion killed lawyers, policemen, and bystanders, the perfect optics to paint Pakistan as a “victim of terrorism.”

No terror group has claimed responsibility. Instead, Pakistan has rushed to blame India and Afghanistan for the attack, even before a preliminary investigation was ordered. How convenient.

Even Afghanistan’s media hinted that the Islamabad bombing could be “a calculated attempt by Pakistan’s establishment to deflect Indian retaliation under Operation Sindoor 2.0.” When Kabul calls you out for manufacturing terror, you know the credibility crisis has reached new depths.

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