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| 5-member Pak investigation team arrives in New Delhi | | Would Pak handover terrorist Azhar to India? | | Pathankot Attack
Earl Times Report
Jammu, Mar 27: As the five member Pakistani team comprising intelligence and police officials probing the Pathankot terror attack arrived in New Delhi on Sunday morning, the big question which is looming large over the minds of people is: Would Pakistan handover JeM Chief Masood Azhar, mastermind behind the Pathankot terror attack, to India?
Azhar is one of the three terrorists, released in 1999 to end the hijack of Indian Air Lines flight which was taken along with the passengers to Kandhar in Afghanistan by the Pakistan sponsored terrorists.
The Indian Airlines Flight 814 from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal to Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, on Friday, 24 December 1999, was hijacked by terrorists of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, terrorists shortly after it entered Indian airspace. Hijackers ordered the aircraft to be flown to several locations. After touching down in Amritsar, Lahore and Dubai, the hijackers finally forced the aircraft to land in Kandhar, Afghanistan, which at the time was controlled by the Taliban. The hijackers released 27 of 176 passengers in Dubai but fatally stabbed one and wounded several others. The motive for the hijacking was to secure the release of terrorists held in prison in India. The hostage crisis lasted for seven days and ended after India agreed to release three terrorists - Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and Maulana Masood Azhar.
Masood Azhar after returning to Pakistan formed a terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad and since then he has been instrumental in training and sending terrorists in to JK and other parts of India to carry out the deadly attacks.
This is for the first time New Delhi has allowed Pakistani investigators to probe a terror attack in India blamed on that country. The access was granted as India hoped that Pakistan would bring to justice the alleged perpetrators, including JeM chief Masood Azhar, sources said.
An analyst while talking to Early Times said, "Many of us believe that this team should not have been allowed to visit India as all of us know that investigations being conducted by Pakistan are nothing but a farce. All of us know it very well that Pakistan won't handover terrorist Azhar to India so that he can be tried here for the war crimes he has committed against India."
The analyst said. "Pakistan has been claiming that Azhar is in protective custody but the fact is that Pakistan investigating agencies have claimed that there is no evidence about his involvement in Pathankot attack. They have even claimed that the phone numbers which were provided by the India stand disconnected and their owners couldn't be traced."
A retired defence official while talking to Early Times said, "What probe are you talking about? Do you think Pakistan is serious? It's nothing just an eyewash. The investigation team which has arrived in India is just a formality as Pakistan wants to hoodwink the international community by claiming that it is working overtime to trace the perpetrators behind Pathankot attack."
Led by Punjab counter-terrorism department's Additional Inspector-General Muhammad Tahir Rai, the members of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) include Deputy Director-General, Lahore, of Pakistan's Intelligence Bureau Mohammed Azim Arshad and military intelligence officer Lieutenant-Colonel Irfan Mirza. Lieutenant-Colonel Tanvir Ahmad, who is serving with Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), would become the first officer in the Pakistani covert service to visit an Indian military facility with official permission, sources said.
The Inspector Shahid Tanveer, a Punjab police officer based in Gujranwala, is the fifth member of the team. He has formal charge of Pakistan's investigation in the case under its Anti-Terrorism Act.
A politician while commenting upon the arrival of Pakistan investigating team in India said, "It's a big development. It proves BJP led NDA led government has no foreign policy. On one hand it claims terror and talks could not go together while on other hand it has allowed Pakistan team to inspect a sensitive airbase which was attacked by the terrorists backed by Pakistan state and Defence Minister Manohar Parikkar declared it in the Parliament that Pathankot terror attack was carried out with the full backing of the Pakistan government."
A defence analyst said, " Now Pakistan team has arrived here. Now it's for the National Investigating Agency (NIA) to ensure that maximum information is extracted from them and team is made to reveal the progress they have made vis-à-vis Pathankot attack. We need to take assurance from them that terrorist Azhar would be handed over to India so that law could take its own course." |
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