Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Pakistan arrests suspects in Pathankot attack case

               
Following the attack on the Pathankot air base in India, the Pakistani authorities have carried out raids at different places and arrested some suspects in the case, intelligence officials said.

According to intelligence official sources raids were carried out in Jhelum, Gujranwala, and Bahawalpur districts and on the basis of suspect an unspecified number of people were arrested.

Sources said that investigations were going to determine whether they were involved in the attack or assisted it.

Following the arrests, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ordered a Joint Investigation Team of IB, Military Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, Federal Investigation Agency and Police to thoroughly investigate the Pathankot attack links to Pakistan.

The Pakistan Prime Minister had earlier said that it will conduct a transparent investigation into the case and will not spare those involved in the case.


India has provided to Pakistan all inputs, including the telephone numbers contacted by the airbase attackers and asked Islamabad to take disciplinary actions against the possible mastermind. 

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