The Pakistani Joint Investigation Team (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, according to a report by The Pakistan Today newspaper.
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.
The JIT also mentioned the murder of NIA officer Tanzil Ahmed in its report. Ahmed was closely involved in the Pathankot airbase attack probe and was shot dead in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor while he was coming back after attending a wedding.
“The brutal murder of a Muslim investigator is evidence that Indian establishment wants to keep the matter under wraps,” a member of the JIT told Pakistan Today.
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