Pakistan is not serious about investigating Pathankot attacks, claim sources in the Indian government a day after CNN-IBN reported that the neighbouring country had back-stabbed India in the case. Sources in the government say that the sudden change in Pakistan’s stance was due to pressure from terror groups.
The government has already made it clear that full cooperation was given to the Pakistan joint investigation team that visited India as part of the probe. As per sources, the JIT had absolved terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad and the ISI of its role in Pathankot attacks. Sources also claim the neighbouring country feels that India is trying to malign Pakistan’s name by dragging ISI into the same.
A report in The Pakistan Today newspaper has in fact claimed that the JIT formed to probe the terror attack at the Indian Air Force base in Pathankot has concluded that the Indian authorities had carried out the attack.
The newspaper, quoting a source privy to the JIT report, claims that India used the attack as a tool to expand its “vicious propaganda" against Pakistan “without having any solid evidence to back the claim".
According to the Pakistani JIT, Indian authorities "failed" to provide evidence to prove that Pakistan-based terrorists had stormed the IAF base.
JIT members visited the Pathankot airbase on March 29 where National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials briefed them and showed them the route from where the attackers stormed the airbase.
The JIT returned on Friday after a five-day visit to India during which all evidence pertaining to the attack was shared with them, including the DNA of four terrorists. The identity of the attackers as well as call records showing involvement of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists behind the attack on the Pathankot air base during the intervening night of January 1 and 2 were also shared with the Pakistani team.
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