Photos of terrorists ahead of Pakistan SIT’s visit released by NIA

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, March 21, 2016: A week before Pakistan’s Special Investigation Team reaches Pathankot to probe the January attack, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has released pictures of four terrorists killed in the siege at the air base in Punjab.

 

Through the release, the NIA hopes to get more information from Pakistani authorities on the four men, suspected to be the members of terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad, accused by India of attacking the Indian Air Force base on January 2 this year.

Seven security personnel and all six attackers were killed in the three-day siege.

India and Pakistan have agreed to conduct a joint investigation into the terror attack at the air base. The Pakistani probe team is expected to arrive in India on March 27 and the probe will begin the next day, India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said last week.

The announcement was made after Swaraj met Sartaj Aziz, foreign affairs advisor to the Pakistan prime minister, on the sidelines of the 37th Saarc Ministerial Meeting held in Nepal’s Pokhara.

India and Pakistan had earlier agreed to conduct a joint investigation but could not finalise the date for starting the probe.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh had on Friday said the government was "prepared" for the upcoming visit of the Pakistani SIT to probe the Pathankot terror attack but the modalities were yet to be worked upon.

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function here, Singh skirted a direct reply on whether the visiting Joint Investigation Team would be given access to the strategic India Air Force (IAF) base, saying: "We are prepared."