India, Nov. 24 -- In the spring of 2000, 17-year-old Afaq Ahmed Shah, radicalised by then newly formed Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror group, rammed an explosive-laden car into Badami Bagh Cantonment, the headquarters of the Indian Army's Chinar (XV) Corps, in Srinagar, killing two soldiers and injuring others. On February 14, 2019, another JeM recruit, Adil Ahmad Dar, 19, detonated his explosive-laden vehicle into a CRPF convoy in Pulwama in South Kashmir, killing 42 security personnel on the spot.

While India's security establishment is well-versed with Islamist suicide bombers, the suicide bombing by Umar un Nabi, a 36-year-old medical doctor from Pulwama, near Red Fort in the national capital on November 10, has opened a...