New Delhi, March 31: Pakistan has detained suspects in the Pathankot attack in January, counter-terror agency NIA said on Monday, and added the team visiting India has provided details of its investigation that cannot be disclosed.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has asked the five-member Pakistan team for the voice samples of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Maulana Masood Azhar and his brother, Abdul Rauf Asghar, agency chief Sharad Kumar said on Monday.
India blames the attack on the Indian Air Force base in Punjab’s Pathankot on Pakistan-based JeM. Six soldiers were killed in an 80-hour gun battle in the strategic facility early January.
Rauf Asghar claimed to have sent ‘mujahideen (holy warriors)’ to attack the Pathankot airbase and made fun of India’s response in an audio tape.
NIA handed over statements of witnesses, post-mortem report of the four terrorists killed in the strike to the Pakistani team that has an official of spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence.
