Pakistani team meets Indian anti-terror officials on Pathankot air base attack

NEW DELHI - A five-member Pakistani team Monday met officials of India's anti-terror National Investigation Agency in Delhi as it began its probe into the terror attack at the Pathankot air base in the northern state of Punjab in January this year, sources said.

"The National Investigation Agency shared information about the terror attack with the Pakistani team, which includes Pakistani military intelligence and police officials, during the meeting. The Pakistani team is to travel to Pathankot Tuesday to continue its probe," the sources said.

The probe team, which was formed on directions of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, will be allowed to question witnesses, but not security personnel, and it will also be given limited access to the Pathankot air base, the sources said.

This is for the first time that a Pakistani probe team has been allowed to come to India to investigate a terror attack, with New Delhi hoping that Islamabad will reciprocate the gesture at a later date, the sources said.

The Pakistani team arrived in India Sunday to investigate the terror strike on the strategic air base in Punjab, in which seven Indian military personnel were killed while neutralising six terrorists who had on Jan 2 launched the attack on the air base that houses Indian Air Force's fighter jets and other high-value Indian Air Force assets.