INDIA GIVES PAK DOSSIER ON JAISH ROLE IN PULWAMA

NEW DELHI: A dossier on the Jaish-e-mohammed (JEM) handed over by India to Pakistan contains detailed information on the top leadership and prominent cadres of the banned group, people familiar with developments said.

The dossier was handed over to Pakistan’s deputy high commissioner Syed Haider Shah when he was summoned to South Block to lodge a protest over the targeting of Indian military posts by Pakistani warplanes that violated the country’s airspace.

The 70-page dossier, aimed at bolstering India’s demand for immediate and verifiable action against terrorism emanating from Pakistani soil, is “entirely focused on JEM and gives details of its involvement in the Pulwama terror attack as well as the attacks on Pathankot airbase and an army facility in Uri in 2016”, a person familiar with its contents said.

The dossier also has details of JEM camps located across Pakistan, information on the group’s leaders, including their names, addresses, phone numbers and utility bills, and the names and locations of prominent cadres, the person said.

A statement issued by the external affairs ministry said India had expressed regret at “continuing denial by Pakistan’s political and military leadership at the presence of terrorist infrastructure in territories under its control”.

It added the dossier had “specific details of JEM complicity in Pulwama terror attack and the presence of JEM terror camps and its leadership in Pakistan” but did not give details.