India to Receive Pakistani Investigators in Pathankot Attack

India agrees to Pakistan SIT visit in the Pathankot attack case.

Armed forces during the counter-terror operation at Pathankot (Photo: Treated by The Quint)

India has agreed to receive Pakistani investigators who are probing the involvement of any group or people from Pakistan in the Pathankot airbase attack, Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said.

He said on Sunday that the only condition India made was that it should be informed at least five days ahead of the visit of the Pakistani investigators, Dawn online reported.

Our SIT (Special Investigation Team) will visit India in the next few days. India has already been informed through a letter by the Foreign Affairs Ministry. India has agreed to it

<b>Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, </b><b>Interior Minister, </b><b>Pakistan</b>

Chaudhry Nisar did not say if India also agreed to allow the investigators to visit the Pathankot airbase.

He was of the opinion that the registration of the FIR was necessary to fulfil certain legal requirements to hold investigations and verification of the information shared by India with Pakistan.

The FIR was also necessary to acquire data from service providers of those telephone numbers through which the attackers had talked to someone in Pakistan from inside the Pathankot airbase.

These (phone) numbers have been made part of the FIR,” he said, adding that “further investigations will be held on the basis of this FIR.

<b>Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan</b>

The minister said some arrests were made in connection with Pathankot attack but investigations were still on to establish their links with the telephone numbers or with those people whose names were provided by India.

He refused to give details about those arrested, saying it was a “sensitive matter”.