India, Nov. 12 -- Weeks before the devastating blast near Delhi's Red Fort, Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) quietly added a new face to its women's wing, Jamaat-ul-Mominat- Afira Bibi, widow of Umar Farooq, a top JeM commander and key conspirator in the 2019 Pulwama attack, media reports said.

Intelligence sources have confirmed that Bibi has joined the outfit's Shura (advisory council) and will work alongside Sadia Azhar, the younger sister of UN-designated terrorist Masood Azhar, and wife of Yusuf Azhar, the Kandahar hijacking mastermind killed in Operation Sindoor.

The aim: to radicalise and recruit women under the guise of "religious education" and "social activities."

The Jamaat-ul-Mominat has since launched an...