Pakistan Investigators Welcome In India For Pathankot Probe, Says Government
Terrorists from Pakistan had struck the Pathankot air base on January 2
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New Delhi: Pakistan has not informed India that it has detained Maulana Masood Azhar, chief of the Jaish-e-Mohammed, the terror group that launched the deadly attack on the Pathankot Air Force Base. The Foreign Secretaries of both countries have spoken and agreed to reschedule their talks, which had been loosely set for tomorrow, said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup.
- India said it welcomes "as a first step" the detention of Jaish leaders in Pakistan- the action was announced yesterday by Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif's office.
- Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs today said it has no information about the detention two days ago of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar, as reported by Pakistani media.
- India has said it supports Pakistan's decision to send investigators to India as part of the probe to collect important evidence about the Pathankot attack earlier this month, in which seven military personnel were martyred and 22 were injured.
- After the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai, Pakistan had refused to send investigators here to work with Indian intel officers.
- Pakistan has rejected some of the evidence given by India, including phone numbers that the terrorists called their handlers on from Pathankot. Islamabad has reportedly conveyed that those phone numbers are not registered in Pakistan.
- Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar was arrested in Kashmir in 1994, but was released along with two other Pakistani terrorists in 1999 in return for 155 passengers held hostage in an Indian Airlines aircraft that was hijacked to Kandahar in Afghanistan.
- India has suggested that for Foreign Secretary talks to take place, Pakistan must take swift and decisive action against those responsible for the attack at Pathankot
- Sources said National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, who arrives from Paris this afternoon, will talk to his Pakistani counterpart Nasser Khan Janjua and will then brief Prime Minster Narendra Modi today.
- India's formal position on the talks is expected to be announced this evening
New Delhi: Pakistan has not informed India that it has detained Maulana Masood Azhar, chief of the Jaish-e-Mohammed, the terror group that launched the deadly attack on the Pathankot Air Force Base. The Foreign Secretaries of both countries have spoken and agreed to reschedule their talks, which had been loosely set for tomorrow, said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup.
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