The National Investigating agency (NIA) that is probing the attack on the Pathankot Air Base in Punjab has now sought Pakistan’s help.
The NIA, which is probing the terror strike on Pathankot IAF airbase in January, has sent Letters Rogatory to Pakistan seeking details of four Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists who had carried out the attack.
Ahead of the visit of Pakistani Special Investigating Team (SIT), likely to take place in the last week of March, the NIA has sent the Letters Rogatory, a legal document sent through the special court asking details about the phone numbers dialled by the four terrorists ahead of carrying out the strike at the airbase of Indian Air Force on the intervening night of 1 and 2 January .
The numbers are believed to be in the names of people connected with Jaish terror group including Mullah Dadullah and Kashif Jaan. The numbers shared belong the Pakistani telecom operators like Mobilink, Warid and Telenor.
The NIA has also sought details and picture of sons of Khayam Baber, whose son was part of the suicide squad that carried out the attack.
Kashif Jaan, one of the key handlers of the attackers, had accompanied the terrorists till the border and returned to supervise the operations, the sources said.
The bodies of four terrorists have been preserved. Out of the four, two of them have been identified as Nasir and Salim.
Nasir was the one who had called his mother, Baber, in Bahawalpur from the phone snatched from jeweller friend of Superintendent of Police of Punjab Salwinder Singh.
The NIA has also given details including the batch number of food packets used by the terrorists after infiltrating into India on 30 December. The terrorists had carefully buried the packets which had Pakistani markings and manufacturing dates of November and December 2015.
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