A Pakistani media report on Monday claimed that Pakistan has turned down India’s proposal to jointly interrogate JeM chief Masood Azhar and other suspects of the Pathankot terror attack.
A Pakistani media report on Monday claimed that Pakistan has turned down India’s proposal to jointly interrogate JeM chief Masood Azhar and other suspects of the Pathankot terror attack.
Azhar is being held in “protective custody” after the Pathankot attack earlier this month, The Nation reported. Several other suspects have also been reportedly arrested and authorities have closed down a number of JeM-run madrasas in different cities.
Azhar has been quizzed by Pakistani investigators, officials were quoted as saying by the daily. The Jaish-e-Moham-mad chief’s brother Mufti Abdul Rehman Rauf is also detained, the report said.
India wanted to send its investigators to interrogate Azhar and his brother but Pakistan “politely refused”, the daily said.
The report came as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that India has given fresh leads relating to the Pathankot terror attack and Pakistan is verifying the facts to bring the perpetrators to justice.
“I have received fresh leads from India on the Pathankot attack and we will look and examine those evidences given by India. We could have hidden it or forgotten it but we asserted that we have received the evidences,” Mr Sharif said on a day when US President Barack Obama termed the Pathankot terror strike as “another example of the inexcusable terrorism that India has endured for too long”.
“Pakistan has an opportunity to show that it is serious about delegitimising, disrupting and dismantling terror networks,” Mr Obama said in an interview.
