Indian minister says perpetrators to face music; India will decide time and place

Pakistan hands over initial probe report of Pathankot attack to India

Telephone numbers provided by India not registered in Pakistan;further investigation under way

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani authorities have completed their initial investigation into the information provided by the Indian government on the recent terrorist attack on the Pathankot airbase in which seven Indian security personnel were killed. A private TV channel quoting sources reported on Monday that Pakistan had handed over the information from the initial investigation report to Indian authorities. Sources said that India had provided Pakistan communication intercepts and telephone numbers which they claimed were used by the terrorists during the attack.

Sources said the numbers provided by India were not registered in Pakistan. Pakistani authorities started their probe as soon as the information was provided by the Indians who claim that the attackers were affiliated with the banned Jaish-e-Mohammad militant outfit. Sources said that investigation agencies are carrying out further probe. 

Meanwhile, Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said that any individual or organisation causing pain to India would be paid back in the same coin but how, when and where will be decided by India.

As the Indian government continues to accuse Pakistan of the Pathankot airbase attack, the Indian minister said history tells us that until those who inflict damage on others experience the same pain, they don t change.

Parrikar stressed that this was his view and should not be taken as the view of the Indian government. “How, when and where (to inflict pain) should be of our choice,” he said. “But if someone is harming the country I think the particular individual or organisation should receive the pain of such activity,” he added.

He said that he purposely used the words that individual and organisation should also receive the pain of such activities. Without referring to the Pathankot attack, Parrikar said the country was proud of its seven soldiers who laid down their lives but he was pained by the loss. —Sabah