The reports of the chief of Jaish-e-Mohammad, Maulana Masood Azhar are denied by the officials from Indian and Pakistan.
Pakistan authorities have arrested other JeM operatives based on the information provided by Indian authorities.
CNN-IBN has claimed to have accessed numbers used by the terrorists to contact their suspected handlers.
Pathankot SP Slawinder Singh’s car was hijacked while he was returning from the a shrine in a nearby village with his jeweler friend Rajesh Verma and his butler Gopal Madan.
According to the report there were three numbers dialed from Verma’s and Ikagar Singh’s phone. Of the list of numbers last contacted from these two numbers, one number was dialed 14 times – five times from Verma’s phone and nine from Ikagar’s online.
Following are the initial digits of the phone numbers dialed from Ikagar’s phone:
- 92301777**
- 92321313** (HQ)
- 92345303**
Following are the initial digits of the phone numbers dialed from Verma’s phone:
- 92345303**
- 9230488***
- 92300095**
The number which was dialed from both the phone (highlighted) is believed to be of Kashid Jan, a close aide of JeM chief Azhar and his brother Rauf.
There have been arrests made by the Pakistani authorities in the probe.
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Information from the Indian intelligence was shared with their Pakistani counterpart. Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, Vikas Swarup has refused to share details about what information was shared.
The armed gunmen had hijacked a taxi and SP Salwinder Singh’s police vehicle inwhich SP Salwinder was traveling with his jeweller friend Rajesh Verma and his butler Madan Gopal.
They later killed the taxi driver, Ikagar Singh.