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Pakistani authorities have lodged an FIR into the Pathankot terror attack case. According to reports from Islamabad, the FIR was registered at Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) centre at Gujranwala in Punjab province yesterday.
A CTD official said , the FIR was needed to start police and judicial proceedings on the basis of evidence collected in connection with the attack for which India has blamed Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militant group.
The FIR has reportedly been registered on the recommendations of a six-member special team probing the attack. Nobody has been named in the report, lodged on the basis of informations provided by India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval that four attackers crossed from Pakistan into India and attacked the airbase on January 2.
India has identified Maulana Masood Azhar as the mastermind of the attack. It has also blamed his brother Rauf and five others for carrying out the attack that killed all six terrorists and seven Indian soldiers.
The attack led to the postponement of a scheduled meeting between Foreign Secretaries of Pakistan and India in January in Islamabad. Since then, no date has been fixed for talks. According to intelligence officials, about a dozen suspects have been arrested in Pakistan following the attack.
Pakistan Prime Minister Sharif had formed the six-member investigation team headed by Additional Inspector General of Punjab’s CTD Rai Tahir to probe India’s assertion that JeM was behind the attack.