Islamabad: Pakistan said Thursday that it has examined the 22 ‘pin locations’ shared by India but found no terror camps there and also claimed that it could not establish any links between the 54 people detained by authorities here and the Pulwama attack. This disclosure came after India had submitted a dossier to Pakistan in the aftermath of the Pulwama incident.
“While 54 detained individuals are being investigated, no details linking them to Pulwama have been found so far,” the Pak Foreign Office (FO) said in a statement, a day after asking India to provide ‘more information/evidence’ on the involvement of the JeM in the deadly Pulwama terror attack and the presence of camps of the UN-proscribed terror outfit in the country.
“Similarly, the 22 pin locations shared by India have been examined. No such camps exist. Pakistan is willing to allow visits, on request, to these locations,” the statement added.
It said that in consistent with its commitment to cooperate, Pakistan shared Wednesday ‘preliminary findings’ of its investigations with India along with a set of questions. “Subsequently, the diplomatic corps in Islamabad was briefed as well,” the FO informed.
India had handed over the dossier February 27 to the Acting High Commissioner of Pakistan in New Delhi with specific details of JeM’s complicity in the Pulwama attack and the presence of JeM terror camps and its leadership in Pakistan.
The FO said soon after receiving the dossier, Pakistan constituted an investigation team, detained a number of people for investigation and initiated work on the technical aspects of social media content, a main basis of the Indian documents.
“The Indian dossier contains 91 pages and six parts, out of which only part two and three pertain to the Pulwama attack,” the foreign office said. “Other parts are generalised allegations. Pakistan is focusing on those parts which relate to Pulwama incident,” it added.
The FO claimed that during the course of investigations, all aspects of the information provided by India have been thoroughly examined. “Pakistan remains committed to taking this process to its logical conclusion,” the FO added.
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