Address media at a weekly news briefing, Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Nafees Zakaria said, “Cooperation and understanding is need of the hour to take the investigation into Pathankot incident forward”.
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Pakistan on Thursday regretted Indian blame game on Pathankot terror attack terming it “unhelpful” and “unfortunate”.
Pakistan formed a five-member JIT to probe the attack and it is expected to arrive here soon. To a separate question, he said the foreign secretaries of the two countries have been in touch with each other to schedule their meeting to work out modalities of the comprehensive bilateral dialogue.to make up its mind on whether or not it will allow Pakistan’s SIT access to the Pathankot airbase where the attack was carried out.
Meanwhile, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Anurag Thakur has said that the board was optimistic that the India-Pakistan World T20 match in Dharamshala on March 19 will take place without any hurdles.
Talking about overall Indo-Pak ties, he said India was for a “much more modern relationship” with Islamabad but for that to happen the neighbouring country needed a change in attitude towards a number of issues of which terrorism is a “central” one.
“In the aftermath of a terror attack, if you ask me what you give priority to, a terrorist attack or a diplomatic dialogue, I think the answer should be obvious”, Jaishankar said at the Raisina Dialogue – India’s flagship worldwide dialogue on geo-economics and geo-politics. “Additional evidence from India is awaited, which is required to conclude the trial”, he said.
The spokesman confirmed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will attend nuclear security summit in Washington later this month.
Asked to comment on statement by the Adviser regarding presence of Taliban leadership in Pakistan, he declined to comment on his statement but stated that there was a need to see the things in their correct prospective. Responding to another question, the Spokesperson said Pakistan’s nuclear arsenals are only meant to deter any aggression against its territorial integrity.
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Police in the Pakistani eastern city of Gujranwala in Punjab province also registered cases against six unidentified people in connection of the attack that had again hit relations between the uneasy neighbours.
