There is no mention of any connection between Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar with the Pulwama attack in the dossier submitted by India to Islamabad after the strike, Pakistan claimed on Thursday.
Addressing a weekly briefing here, Foreign Officespokesperson Muhammad Faisal said that soon after receiving the dossier,Pakistan constituted a 10-member investigation team comprising officials ofFederal Investigation Agency to probe the attack.
However, “no linkage of Pakistan was found with the Pulwamaincident”.
“The Indian dossier does not claim any linkage of MasoodAzhar with the Pulwama incident,” he added.
India handed over the dossier to the Acting HighCommissioner of Pakistan in New Delhi on February 27.
The FO spokesperson said the Indian dossier contains 91pages and six parts, out of which only part two and three pertain to thePulwama attack. Other parts were “mostly general allegations”. Pakistanconcentrated on those parts which relate to Pulwama incident, he said.
Asserting that Pakistan was willing to cooperate with India,the spokesperson said, “We have informed India that we are ready to cooperateif they provide actionable intelligence and evidence that will sustain thethreshold of Pakistani courts, we are ready to work on that”.
He said Pakistan repeatedly offered dialogue to India forresolution of all disputes but the Indian side did not reciprocate.
Meanwhile, India Thursday expressed disappointment overPakistan’s response to its dossier, saying Islamabad continues to be in “denialon the issue of cross border terrorism”.
“India is disappointed at Pakistan’s response to ourdetailed dossier on the Jaish-e-Mohammed’s complicity in the cross-borderattack in Pulwama, the presence of its terror camps and leadership inPakistan,” external affairs ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said.
“Regrettably, Pakistan continues to be in denial and evenrefuses to acknowledge Pulwama as a terror attack,” he said.
The MEA spokesperson said Pakistan has not shared details ofcredible action, if any, taken by it against militants or militant groups basedin Pakistan.
“We are hardly surprised, as this identical script wasfollowed by Pakistan in the past, after the attacks in Mumbai in 2008 or inPathankot in 2016,” he said.
Kumar said India was examining the paper handed over byPakistan to India on Pulwama strike in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed.
“It is a well-known fact that the UN-designatedJaish-e-Mohammed and its leader Masood Azhar are based in Pakistan. This wasagain acknowledged recently to international media by Pakistan’s ForeignMinister,” Kumar said.
“There’s no dearth of sufficient actionable information andevidence in Pakistan itself to take action against them, if there is sincerityand intent to do so,” he said.
“Pakistan should abide by the commitment it gave in 2004,and which its current leadership has recently repeated, vowing not to allow anyterritory under its control to be used for terrorism against India in anymanner,” said Kumar.
He said Pakistan should take “immediate, credible, irreversible and verifiable” actions against militants and organizations operating from territories under its control.