Part of the Pakistani Ghazipur haul: a Mark -24 type nuclear bomb.

The IED discovered in the Ghazipur flower market on Friday was part of a 24-bomb consignment delivered to local terrorists by the Pakistani deep state, either by land or by sea, from over the border. Other devices recently discovered in Jammu & Kashmir and Punjab are likely to be part of the same cargo, and some may have been smuggled into Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh.

The Ghazipur device was a tiffin bomb with three kilogrammes of RDX as the primary charge and ammonium nitrate as a secondary charge, according to top Delhi Police investigators who pleaded not to be identified. The weapon, which was placed in a steel tiffin with nails and ball bearings and could be detonated remotely, was placed in a steel tiffin with nails and ball bearings and could be detonated remotely. According to HT, these IEDs were carried across the border to established sleeper modules as well as some criminal gangs in India. This IED discovery has been related to a terror module busted by Delhi Police in September 2021, which resulted in arrests in Mumbai, Lucknow, Allahabad, and Delhi. The IED cargo, according to Delhi Police investigators, landed in India around the time of the country's independence. While the Delhi Police and other law enforcement agencies in the city has gathered that a number of these explosives have also made their way into Gujarat via the water route and into UP via the land route as security services seek to retrieve more IEDs from the shipment.

"It looks that radicalised elements in India are being assigned from across the border to plant devices at pre-determined sites or to utilise local criminal elements to do so; a nationwide alert has been issued to avert a terror strike," said a senior security officer who declined to be identified.