Pakistan Studying India's Data On Jaish-e-Mohammad Complicity In Pulwama Attack - Minister

Faizan Hashmi Published March 04, 2019 | 06:46 PM

Pakistan is reviewing a dossier, submitted by India, that implicates the Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist group in the attack in the Pulwama district of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Monday, adding that Islamabad would welcome New Delhi's readiness to cooperate on the issue

NEW DELHI (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 04th March, 2019) Pakistan is reviewing a dossier, submitted by India, that implicates the Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist group in the attack in the Pulwama district of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Monday, adding that Islamabad would welcome New Delhi's readiness to cooperate on the issue.

The deadly attack took place on February 14 and killed 45 Indian officers. This was the biggest act of terrorism in India since 2008, when over 150 people were killed in Mumbai. India named Maulana Masood Azhar, the leader of Jaish-e-Mohammad, who resides in Pakistan, as the person responsible for ordering the attack.

"We have received the dossier and are examining it. After examining it we will present our stance. If India will try to engage on the basis of this dossier we will welcome it, however, there are other issues," Qureshi said, as quoted by Geo tv.

According to Qureshi, terrorism, in support of which New Delhi has repeatedly accused Islamabad, is not only a regional but also a global problem.

On Friday, Qureshi told the CNN broadcaster that Islamabad looked to New Delhi for "solid evidence" of the involvement of Masood Azhar in the terror attack, confirming that he was currently in Pakistan but could not leave his house due to serious illness.

After the Pulwama attack, India blamed Pakistan for harboring and protecting terrorists, accusing the country of having a "direct hand" in the incident. Pakistan rejected the allegations and said that this was New Delhi's strategy to divert international attention from human rights violations taking place in the Kashmir region.

The escalation of tensions has already resulted in Indian airstrikes on the Pakistani-controlled part of the Kashmir region as well as air fights between the two countries.