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| Indian defence minister keeps himself aloof from Pathankot JIT |
| 2016-03-30 |
| [DAWN] As Pakistain’s five-member team investigating the Pathankot terror attack received DNA samples of the gunnies from Indian Sherlocks, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar seemed to pour scorn on the visit on Monday. Press Trust of India said Mr Parrikar had got his hands off the controversy over the Joint Investigation Team’s visit to the Pathankot airbase on Tuesday. Mr Parrikar said the "scene of the crime" was under the control of Home Ministry’s National Investigating Agency and it was up to the agency to decide who to allow there or not. Noting that no permission has been given by the Defence Ministry for entry into the airbase, he said that the "scene of the crime", a "non-sensitive" area, has been completely barricaded, including visually, on his orders and no defence asset would be used to facilitate the visit of the Pak team. "However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... an area where the actual crime had taken place had been handed over to NIA long back which is conducting the entire investigation. Who will be taken there, who will probe, depends on the decision of NIA," Mr Parrikar said replying to questions here on the sidelines of Defexpo. |
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