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‘India asks for JeM chief Masood Azhar voice sample’; Pakistan JIT visits Pathankot airbase

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Even as five-member Pakistani probe team, including an ISI official, on Tuesday visited the Pathankot airbase, India seeks DNA samples of JeM chief and founder Masood Azhar.

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India has sought access to Azhar and will send a formal letter rogatory to Pakistan.

Meanwhile, the Pakistani Joint Investigation Team (JIT) team accompanied by NIA officials entered the strategic airbase from its rear side after their convoy stopped at ‘Upper Doaba’ canal and the members took a mini bus to travel through the dirt track next to the water body.

The JIT team accompanied by NIA officials entered the strategic airbase from its rear side after their convoy stopped at ‘Upper Doaba’ canal here and the members took a mini bus to travel through the dirt track next to the water body.

“First let me make clear one thing, that the Pakistan team which has come related to the probe, has a limited access to periphery. They will not enter the air base nor will they interact with the officials of the Army. They will investigate other things,” Shah said here.

“I agree that for the first time Pakistan has made serious efforts towards investigation. The results will be known after the investigation gets over,” Shah said during a media interaction at Press Club.

The team, officials said, was taken to only the ‘scene of crime’ where the encounter occurred between the security men and terrorists and the entire process was videographed by two IAF personnel.

However, Congress said that according an almost ‘red carpet welcome’ to JIT raised serious questions on procedural propriety in relation to compromise on national security and likened it to an accused investigating himself.

AAP said instead of allowing Pakistan’s investigation team to visit India to probe Pathankot attack, Indian security agencies should have been sent to Pakistan to investigate the role of masterminds ‘enjoying hospitality of Pakistan Government not only after Pathankot attack but after Mumbai attacks too’.

Protesters carrying placards and black flags shouted slogans outside the base.

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