No need to doubt Pakistan at present: Rajnath Singh says on Pathankot

She also said that both India and the U.S. bring justice to terror groups like Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Chief of Army Staff General (COAS) Raheel Sharif, DG Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lieutenant General Rizwan Akhtar, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Prime Minister’s National Security Adviser Lieutenant-General (r) Nasir Janjua and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif were told in the meeting that the arrested people could be possible facilitators of Pathankot attackers.

The foreign secretary-level talks between Pakistan and India scheduled for Friday (January 15) in Islamabad have reportedly been postponed. According to Indian media reports, the decision to postpone the foreign secretary-level talks has been taken after mutual understanding by the two governments in the wake of the Pathankot airbase terrorists attack.

Pakistan was quick to condemn the air base attack, and Sharif spoke to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, expressing condolences and saying Pakistan would investigate any information that India provides.

Also Wednesday, Pakistani media reported that authorities had taken Maulana Masood Azhar, the head of the Jaish-e-Mohammad group, into custody or questioning.

While the arrest of several individuals was announced in a press release from the Prime Minister’s Office, there was no official word on Azhar’s detention. It also blamed his brother Rauf and five others for carrying out the attack that left all six terrorists and seven Indian soldiers dead on January 2.

Nawaz Sharif It led to India not confirming the Indian foreign secretary’s travel plans to Pakistan, as it hoped to get Nawaz Sharif to show some tangible results to assuage Indian public opinion.

“It is not up to Musharraf or anyone from Pakistan to decide how India will react to the issue”. He said militants involved in this attack belong to a banned outfit and have been arrested.

Meanwhile, Pakistan PMO confirmed that the country was willing to send a special investigation team to India after consultations with New Delhi. The committee is headed by a senior officer at the Counter Terrorism Department, Rai Tahir, and its members are officers from the civil and military intelligence agencies.