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Pathankot attack: Indian authorities start talks with Pakistani JIT




NEW DELHI: Indian authorities brief Pakistan’s Joint Investigation Team (JIT) over terror attack at the Indian Air Force Base (IAF) in Pathankot and starts formal discussions on the investigation, sources said Monday.

The five-member Pakistani JIT is headed by Chief of Punjab’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Muhammad Tahir Rai and comprises Lahore’s Deputy Director General, Intelligence Bureau, Mohammad Azim Arshad, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) official Lt Col Tanvir Ahmed, Military Intelligence official Lt Col Irfan Mirza and Gujranwala CTD Investigating Officer, Shahid Tanveer.

According to sources, Pakistani JIT arrived on Sunday to investigate the terror attack, making it the first-ever visit of a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) from Pakistan that included an ISI official.

Inspector General Sanjiv Kumar Singh received the team at the headquarters of National Investigation Agency in New Delhi.

The Indian media reports say the team is being given a detailed presentation and evidences on the probe done by Indian agencies that show the attack was planned in Pakistan by Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror group.

The team will leave for airbase on Tuesday for the probe into the attack and make a detailed report after taking statement of the witnesses that include Punjab Police Superintendent Salwinder Singh, his jeweller friend Rajesh Verma, cook Madan Gopal and 17 injured persons.




M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.