ISLAMABAD – Pakistan takes US onboard the Pulwama attack investigationsover Indian dossier.
Pakistan has approached the US to seek assistance from messaging serviceWhatsApp in extracting details and activities of suspect GSM numbersprovided by India in a dossier.
The claim was made in an investigative report shared by Pakistan with theMinistry of External Affairs here on Wednesday, in response to the evidencepertaining to the February 14 attack India sent to the neighbour.
In a detailed dossier shared with Islamabad on February 27, India hadlisted 90 individuals with likely links to the banned terror outfitJaish-e-Mohammad and 22 ‘pin locations’ of alleged terror training campsacross the western border.
Denying that any terror camps existed at the pointed out by India in thefile, Pakistan has expressed its willingness to allow a global team, aswell as one from India, to visit the sites.
Its report states how Islamabad has moved to initiate a probe soon afterreceipt of India’s dossier.
Other than to Delhi, Pakistan has also dispatched the report to the UNSecurity Council’s five permanent members — China, France, Russia, UK andUS.
India also shared the “confessional” video of the fidayeen Adil Dar, whocarried out the suicide blast that killed over 40 CRPF soldiers in Pulwama,and details of how he was in constant touch with his JeM handler inPakistan.
Pakistan’s report stated, “All aspects of the information provided by Indiahave been examined, including the confessional video of Adil Dar, “claim”of responsibility for the attack, Whatsapp and Telegram numbers used toshare videos and messages in support of Pulwama attack…”
“A request for assistance from WhatsApp has also been made to the USgovernment,” the report stated, adding that 54 detained individuals werebeing investigated, but no details linking them to Pulwama had emerged sofar.
It said the 22 pin locations shared by India have been examined and no suchcamps exist. “Pakistan is willing to allow visits, on request, to theselocations,” it stated. “Additional information and documents from Indiawould be essential to continue the process of investigations,” it said.
Other than Pulwama-related data, the dossier by India contains generalinformation about terror groups based in Pakistan.