Islamabad to write to India on JIT visit: by Maqbool Malik in The Nation, Jan 28, 2016

ISLAMABAD – Islamabad will write to New Delhi about the visit of its Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing the information India shared with Pakistan on the Pathankot airbase attack.
According to the government sources, once the JIT investigating the Indian leads felt the need to visit India, Islamabad will immediately inform New Delhi of the schedule.
“A thorough investigation is underway; it would be premature to comment on the outcome of the investigation,” a senior government functionary privy to the probe told The Nation on the request of anonymity, adding both the countries were in contact at the highest level.
The new Indian High Commissioner Gautam Bambawale had a meeting with National Security Adviser Lt-Gen (r) Naseer Khan Janjua in Islamabd on Monday and discussed the issue.
Although there is no direct finger-pointing this time from New Delhi against Pakistan, Indian media had claimed that the attackers of the Pathankot airbase on January 2 had entered from across the border and were members of the banned Jaish-e-Muhammad militant group, even though an umbrella of Kashmiri militant groups, United Jihad Council, claimed the responsibility for the attack.
Pakistan which condemned the attack and offered all-out cooperation to India swiftly moved on the actionable information provided by New Delhi and rounded up several suspects belonging to Jaish-e-Muhammed while its chief Maulana Masood Azhar was also into the protective custody.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who was on an official visit to Sri Lanka that time, telephoned his Indian counterpart Nerendra Modi and assured him of a prompt and decisive action on the information.
The two prime ministers spoke after Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval phoned his Pakistani counterpart Lt-Gen (r) Naseer Khan Janjua to share ‘crucial information’ regarding the attack, even though the Foreign Office said a day earlier that Islamabad was working on the leads provided by the Indian government.
A heavily armed group, wearing uniforms of the Indian security forces, attacked the Pathankot airbase, part of the Western Air Command of the Indian Air Force, on January 2, leaving at least eight people, including the four terrorists, dead during the retaliation by the Indian security forces.
“Both India and Pakistan will have to move on to normalise their relations in the larger interest of peace and the people of the two countries,” said a leading analyst.
However, despite the high-level contacts between Pakistan and India and mutual resolve to tackle the challenge of terrorism in the region, some observers and experts still believe the Pathankot attack was yet another false flag operation of India to upset the foreign secretary-level meeting scheduled for January 15 in Islamabad.
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