New Delhi: A blame game has started between the security agencies of Pakistan and India days after the Pakistani Joint Investigation Team visited India to collect evidence on the Pathankot terror probe.
In the wake of bizarre reports in the Pakistan media quoting JIT sources as alleging that the Pathankot attack was “stagemanaged” by India, security officials here said the Pakistani security establishment’s “doublespeak” stood exposed as they pointed out that some “inimical forces” in Pakistan were trying to derail the investigation.
Government sources in New Delhi described the Pakistani media report as a “total concoction”, noting that “while in India, the JIT took onboard the detailed evidence shared by the NIA”, and that “since the JIT collected evidence in accordance with a Pakistani law that applies to Pakistani citizens committing an offence abroad, the involvement of Pakistanis in the Pathankot attack is self-evident”.
Some observers also felt the controversy had also raised serious doubts on the feasibility of holding foreign secretary-level talks between the two countries. “The report in a Pakistan pro-government daily only shows that the ISI and Pakistan Army were doing double-speak,” an official said.
