A five-member Joint Investigation Team (JIT) from Pakistan headed by Chief of Punjab’s Counter Terrorism Department Muhammad Tahir Rai reached here on Sunday to carry further probe into the attack on the IAF base at Pathankot, marking the first-ever such visit to the country to investigate a terror case.
The team that also includes an ISI official lt Col Tanvir Ahmed was received by officials of NIA and Pakistan High Commission. The team will also visit Pathankot airbase on Tuesday after being given a 90-minute presentation by the NIA here on Monday on the probe carried by it so far and evidences that show that the terror attack was planned from across the border in Pakistan, official sources said. Seven security personnel were killed in the attack.
It will also analyse investigations being carried out by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the attack at the Indian Air Force base carried out by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed(JeM) terror group on January 2.
The Pak JIT flew in here by a special flight from Pakistan. The team is headed by Chief of Punjab’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Muham-mad Tahir Rai and comprises lahore’s Deputy Director General Intelligence Bureau Mohammad Azim Arshad, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) official lt Col Tanvir Ahmed, Military Intelligence official lt Col Irfan Mirza and Gujaranwala CTD Investig-ating Officer Shahid Tanveer.
During 26/11 Mumbai attack case, Pakistan had sent a judicial commission to cross-examine some of the witnesses in the case.