Swarup welcomed Pakistan’s arrests in raids across the country, and said India would work with a team of investigators Pakistan is sending to Pathankot, near the border between the two countries.
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With regard to the proposal of Pakistani SIT to come to India for probe into the airbase attack, the officials said they can come to collect evidence while focussing on investigation into how the attack was hatched in that country.
The Pakistani foreign office said a new date had not yet been decided.
After a high-level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday, his office issued a statement which said that “several individuals” belonging to JeM have been apprehended in connection with the Pathankot terror attack and some of its offices traced and sealed.
However, the Foreign Office had said in the morning that it is not aware of the arrest of Jaish-i-Mohammad chief while Bahawalpur DPO Sarfaraz Ahmad Falki had also expressed ignorance about house arrest of Maulana Azhar or any other arrests in his district.
Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar who was taken into custody by authorities yesterday has hit out at Pakistan for his detention.
The spokesman noted that considerable progress had been made into the investigation into the alleged links of Pakistani terrorists to the attack on the IAF base.
Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Vikas Swarup told a media conference that India expected an action that was “credible, comprehensive and brings to justice all known perpetrators of the Pathankot terror attack”.
He said that he had no information about a meeting between the two respective National Security Advisors in Paris as has been reported sections of the media.
The attack – a rare targeting of an Indian military installation outside disputed Kashmir – threatened to undermine improving relations with Pakistan after decades of fractious ties.
India had earlier stated that it would decide on whether to go ahead with the Foreign Secretary-level talks only after Islamabad acted in the matter.
Police said the incident is being investigated and efforts are on to nab the other three accused.
In 2008, Islamabad turned down New Delhi’s demand it dispatch the head of its intelligence agency to India after Pakistani militants carried out a series of high-profile attacks across Mumbai that left 166 people dead.
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The meeting reiterated Pakistan’s commitment to eliminate terrorism from its soil.
