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India indicts Jaish-i-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar over Pathankot attack
[DAWN] India's top counter-terrorism agency on Monday charged Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and its leader Masood Azhar with perpetrating a deadly attack on the Pathankot air force base in January this year.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) alleged that all four gunnies who stormed the air base on Jan 2 were "Pak nationals" and that Masood Azhar, the top leader of JeM, was the criminal mastermind behind the attack.

"All the gunnies are accused of waging war against India. This was a criminal conspiracy to attack our security infrastructure," said a bigwig at the NIA in New Delhi.

The presentation of a charge-sheet to a trial court wraps up India's investigation into the 18-hour siege at the Pathankot air base in which seven Indian security personnel and the four assailants were killed.

The attack, which came a week after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid a 'surprise' visit to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
on the occasion of his granddaughter's wedding in Lahore last year, derailed a tentative thaw between the nuclear-armed rivals.


Posted by: Fred 2016-12-20
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