Pak Will Take Action After Complete Probe: FO

He said that Pakistan has to consider the feelings and aspirations of “oppressed Kashmiris” “You can not be an advocate of the murdered and a friend of the murderer simultaneously”, he said about warming up of India-Pakistan relations. Sources said India feels Pakistan has shown a “constructive” attitude but is waiting for it to back its words with more action.

US President Barack Obama has also invited Modi and Sharif to a nuclear security summit in Washington in March, offering another opportunity for the two Prime Ministers to meet.

India had also on that day noted that the Government of Pakistan was considering sending a special investigation team (SIT) to investigate the Pathankot terrorist attack.

India today said that it was closely following up on the progress of the investigations in Pakistan on the terrorist attack on the Indian Air Force (IAF) base at Pathankot earlier this month and looking for “credible and comprehensive action” against all those involved.

He has called the attack a “continuation of their activity, targeting Indian military installations” rather than a plot to disrupt India-Pakistan talks.

He said the two meetings of the Quadrilateral Group comprising Pakistan, Afghanistan, US and China had already taken place while the third meeting would be held in Islamabad on Feb.6. Rest is a matter of details. What they can see? What will be terms of reference? “Those need to be worked out by agencies on both sides provided the Pakistan government firms up its decision to send the team”.

The Pakistan-based chief of a militant alliance fighting for an end to Indian rule in divided Kashmir openly condemned on Wednesday a crackdown by the Pakistan government against another group India blames for an attack on an air base.

The MEA also dismissed as “baseless” allegations from some quarters in Pakistan that India had something to do with the attack at a university at Charsadda in Pakistan in which several people, mostly students, were massacred by heavily-armed suicide attackers. At a weekly press briefing, Foreign Office spokesman Qazi Khalilullah responding to a question stated, “let the ongoing investigation into the incident complete, as nothing can be said in concrete at this moment”.

However he said “we maintained contact with Afghanistan at various levels” and had been raising the issues of Islamabad’s concern with the Afghan leadership.