Pakistan decides to seek more evidence from India on Pathankot incident
India has provided record of only five telephone calls, sources told.
LAHORE (Web Desk) – Pakistan has decided to seek more evidence from India regarding attack on Pathankot air base, Dunya News reported.
Rai Tahir, the head of Punjab’s Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), chaired a meeting today (Thursday) to review evidence provided by the Indian government.
According to sources, India has provided record of only five telephone calls which is not sufficient, thus, the meeting has decided to seek additional details from the Indian authorities.
Decision on the required evidence will be finalised in the next meeting, sources told.
On January 25, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said India has given fresh leads relating to the Pathankot terror attack and the authorities are verifying the facts to bring the perpetrators to justice.
"I have received fresh leads from India on the Pathankot attack and we will look and examine those evidences given by India. We could have hidden it or forgotten it but we asserted that we have received the evidences," Sharif said.
"We are probing and verifying that. Once we are done with that we would definitely bring the facts forward. Along with that, we have also formed a special investigating team, they would go to India and collect more evidence," Nawaz Sharif said in London on his arrival from Davos after attending the World Economic Forum.
"I had a word with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and he had offered every help possible from their side in bringing the perpetrators to justice. We are going on the right lines and I hope the perpetrators will be brought to justice soon," he said.
India gave "specific and actionable information" to Pakistan soon after the Pathankot attack reportedly carried out by Jaish-e-Mohammed militants on the intervening night of January 1 and 2 that killed seven Indian soldiers.
