New Delhi, Dec. 11 -- The term "white-collar terrorists" entered public discourse in October 2025, when a network of Kashmiri doctors was found in possession of materials used to manufacture highly lethal chemical explosives. One of the doctors accidentally detonated an incomplete bomb in a car near Delhi's Red Fort, causing multiple fatalities.

While this module surfaced more than five years after the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A, its emergence should not have been surprising. The constitutional changes reduced-but did not eliminate-Pakistan-supported terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K). For over three decades, several educated and economically well-off Kashmiri youths were radicalised and recruited into terror networks backed by P...