Delhi Police bust Pakistan-backed terror syndicate, seven held

📌 Summary:

• The Delhi Police Special Cell busted a Pakistan-backed international terror-crime syndicate run by gangster-turned-terrorist Shahzad Bhatti and his associate Ajmal Gujjar
• Seven operatives were arrested for smuggling illegal arms, ammunition and narcotics from Pakistan into the Delhi-NCR region
• Police said the network functioned under the patronage of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), using India-based individuals — Uttar Pradesh and Punjab residents with prior criminal records — who were in direct contact with handlers in Pakistan
• The case illustrates the deepening organised-crime-terror nexus and cross-border narco-terrorism as instruments of proxy warfare

🎯 UPSC Relevance: GS3 Internal Security — cross-border terrorism, the crime-terror nexus, narco-terrorism, and the role of external state actors.

🔑 Key Term: Narco-terrorism — the use of drug trafficking and its proceeds to fund, facilitate or further terrorist activities.