United States wants India-Pakistan to continue dialogue

He said that this was a serious issue and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take the matter seriously.

Several suspects were arrested in a raid on a madrassa allegedly being run by proscribed Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militant outfit on Thursday. Rana Sanaullah, the minister for law in the eastern Punjab province, says Azhar is in the custody of the Counter-Terrorism Department but that so far no case against him has been registered, a requirement under Pakistani law that precedes an indictment.

Sending a strong signal to Pak authorities for committing dilly dally in bringing Pathankot attackers to justice, India today hinted at disallowing the members of Joint Investigation Team (JIT) inside Pathankot airbase.

India suspects that militants belonging to the JeM were behind the Pathankot militant attack on January 2.

Dar added that Pakistan won’t allow any misuse of its territory against any country.

It said “considerable progress has been made in the investigations being carried out against terrorist elements reportedly linked to the Pathankot incident”.

Jaish-e-Mohammad militants are blamed for a 2001 attack on India’s parliament that almost led to a war between the nuclear-armed rivals. The offices of the organisation are also being traced and sealed.

Earlier, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said that Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar had spoken to his Pakistani counterpart Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhary and both had agreed to reschedule the talks in the near future.

Relationships between the long-standing arch rivals once again came to the forefront following an attack on India’s air base in Pathankot.