NEW DELHI: National Investigation Agency (NIA) has approached probe agencies of some foreign countries including the US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in connection with its probe into the Pathankot terror attack.
The help of the agencies is being sought even as central probe agencies still await a formal response from Pakistan for allowing a NIA team to that country for a thorough investigation.
Official sources said today that the help of some of the agencies including the FBI had been sought for tracking some of the cyber footprints that had been left by handlers of Pakistan- based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed(JeM) in the aftermath of the attack on the strategic IAF base at Pathankot on the intervening night of January one and two.
Immediately after the attack, Abdul Rauf, brother of Jaish chief Maulana Masood Azhar, was seen on a video taking responsibility on a website ‘alqalam.Com’ and ‘rangonoor.Com’ which were hosted by a US-based domain service provider.
While ‘alqalam’ was shut down before the arrival of Pakistan’s Joint Investigation Team(JIT) to India last week, the other one remains hosted but the video has been removed. (AGENCIES)
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