Indian Air Base at Pathankot under attack by gunmen.

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By Zee Media Bureau | Last Updated: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 - 05:57

Delhi: The attack on the Pathankot airbase in January this year, that had left seven personnel dead and 37 others injured, was planned in April 2014 at a meeting in Sialkot in Pakistan by Jaish-e-Mohammed operative Shahid Latif who showed the potential attackers a Google map of the base.


As per the chargesheet filed by National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday, he told them that it was “easy” to launch an attack since the airbase was surrounded by forests, The Indian express reported.

This information is said to have been gathered from a witness who was present at the meeting.

Wrapping up investigations in the Pathankot airbase attack case, NIA filed a chargesheet against Pakistan-based JeM chief Maulana Masood Azhar, his brother and two others for hatching the conspiracy of the January two audacious terror strike.

The chargesheet was filed in the NIA court at Panchkula in which all the four have been slapped with charges under Indian Penal Code, Explosive Substances Act, Arms Act and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

Besides Azhar, his brother Mufti Abdul Rauf Asghar and two handlers - Shahid Latif and Kashif Jan - have been named in the exhaustive chargesheet.

While Interpol Red Corner Notice against three has been issued, the same was pending against Jan, the NIA said.

The chargesheet will also put to rest speculation about the number of terrorists involved in the attack as the agency gave details of only four militants.

There was confusion about the number of terrorists as Defence Minister Manohar Parikar and Home Minister Rajnath Singh had informed that the number was six.

The chargesheet also hinted of lax security at the strategic IAF base in Pathankot and said that the four terrorists - Nasir Hussain, Hafiz Abu Bakar, Umar Farooq and Abdul Qayoom - who were Pakistani nationals belonging to Jaish, had entered the premises at 0840 hours of January one and entrenched themselves in a drain and adjacent shed belonging to Military Engineering Services, as per PTI.

The terrorists were engaged in a gunfight only at 0320 hours of January two, 19 hours after they had entered the IAF base.

(With Agency inputs)



First Published: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 - 05:54




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New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency, that filed a chargesheet on Pathankot airbase attack on Monday, claim to have decoded the code words used by terrorists during the operation.

The chargesheet, filed at a Panch kula court, says the Pathankot terror attack was code-named 'nikaah' (wedding) while the attackers were named 'baraati' (wedding guests).

It further added that JeM terrorists in Pakistan were monitoring the attack while Kashif Jan, the main handler of the four
killers, was chatting with his friends on Facebook.

The Facebook chats of Kashif and his aides reveal chilling details of how they shared congratulatory messages after Indian soldiers were killed.

Among his several chats that NIA accessed to, there's one that read, "Kya kaifiyat hai, kya nazare hain, bahut hi umda" (what circumstances and what sights, beautiful).

In an another chat, Kashif had replied on the situation in Pathankot during the attack as he said, "Nazare khatam hue, baraati ghar gaye (the scenes are over and the wedding guests have left for home)."

The NIA also claim that the terrorists were carrying few hand written notes written in English and Urdu, probably wanting the Indian government to know that Pakistan's Jaish-e-Mohammad was behind the attack on the Indian airbase.

One of the notes that disclosed the purpose behind the attack, read, "Jaish-e-Mohammad Zindabad. Tanghdar se le kar Samba, Kathua, Rajbagh aur Delhi tak Afzal Guru Shaheed ke jaan-nesar tum ko milte rahe. Allah AGS 25-12-15."

The 101-page chargesheet that named Masood Azhar as the mastermind of the attack also included his brother and his deputy, Abdul Rauf Asghar, Shahid Latif of Gujranwala, Pakistan, and Kashif Jan names in it.

Training camps in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir were set up for recruitment and training of terrorists, who underwent extensive motivational, physical, military and tactical training regimen before they were radicalised and prepared for jihad, the NIA chargesheet said.

Azhar and the rest have been charged under relevant sections of the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act as well as Indian Penal Code.


First Published: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - 01:00

 

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Written by Jagdeep Singh Deep | Mohali | Published:January 10, 2017 5:27 am

A SPECIAL designated court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) issued the proclamation notice to four accused in the Pathankot attack, including Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar, his brother Abdul Rauf and two other alleged handlers on Monday.


A SPECIAL designated court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) issued the proclamation notice to four accused in the Pathankot attack, including Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar, his brother Abdul Rauf and two alleged handlers, Shahid Latif and Kashif Jan, on Monday. JeM was accused of carrying out the terror attack on the Pathankot airbase on January 2, 2016. By issuing the proclamation notice, the process of declaring all the accused as proclaimed offenders (PO) began.

The court has fixed March 9 for the next hearing in the case. The court may take a decision regarding this then. The proclamation notice was issued under Section 82 of the Criminal Procedure Code under which the court sends a legal notice to the accused to appear in court within 30 days. If the accused fails to appear within the stipulated time, the court declares him PO.

The NIA also filed its status report on the progress of the case and told court that they got a red corner notice issued against the three accused — Masood Azhar, Abdul Rauf and Shahid Latif – while the notice is yet to be served to Kashif Jan. “Yes, we have filed the status report. The ourt has issued the notice to all the accused in the case and the proceedings of declaring them PO have been initiated,” said an NIA official.

The weapons and other articles recovered from the four terrorists who entered the airbase will be kept at Phase VII police station amid tight security, said an NIA official. NIA had filed the chargesheet against the four accused on December 20.