Pathankot attack probe: Pak JIT will get limited access to crime scene

March 26, 2016 19:18

A five members of a Pakistani Joint Investigation Team, who will travel to India on Sunday to carry forward the probe into the brazen Pathankot air base attack, will get limited access to crime scene at the base, media reports have claimed.

Reports also claimed that the Pakistani investigators will be allowed to question witnesses but not security personnel.

The team will visit the NIA HQ in Delhi on Monday and Pathankot on Tuesday, according to a media report.

India had agreed to allow the Pakistani JIT to visit the air base after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj met with her Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz in Kathmandu on the sidelines of SAARC ministerial meeting on March 17.

India has been pressing Pakistan for action over the brazen assault on the key Indian Air Force base on January 2 in which seven Indian security personnel were killed. In the gun-battle, six terrorists were also killed.

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