TIA NEWS /
India will ask for access from Pakistan to Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist Masood Azhar. National Investigation Agency (NIA) Chief Sharad Kumar told a private TV channel that another formal request would be sent after the five-member Pakistani probe team returns after their investigations into the Pathankot terror attack. Masood Azhar is blamed for the attack on the Pathankot air base in January this year.
Meanwhile, a five-member Pakistani Pakistani Joint Investigation Team today visited the strategic Air Force base in Pathankot.
Top NIA officials briefed the team about the terror attack. The team that arrived in Amritsar in the morning from Delhi in a special plane, was taken to Pathankot by road and they spent about four hours there before leaving for Amritsar.
It is for the first time that a Pakistani team has visited India to probe a terror case and has been given access to a strategic installation.
Congress and Aam Aadmi Party have accused the government of giving unfettered access to a Pakistani probe team which dilutes India’s stand that terrorism is sponsored from across the border.
Seven security personnel were martyred in the attack. All terrorists involved in the attack were also killed in the gun-battle.