Pakistan said no terror camps were found at the 22 “pin locations” shared by India and also claimed that it could not establish any links between the 54 people detained by local authorities and the Pulwama terror attack.

Making public more details of “preliminary findings” after India submitted a dossier to Islamabad after the terror attack carried out by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) on February 14, the Foreign Office said it was willing to allow visits, on request, to the 22 locations.

“While 54 detained individuals are being investigated, no details linking them to Pulwama have been found so far,” it said in a statement, a day after asking India to provide “more information/evidence” on JeM’s involvement in the attack and the presence of camps of the UN-proscribed terror outfit in the country.

Amidst intense international pressure on Islamabad after the terror attack, authorities announced the preventive detention of more than 120 members of banned militant outfits. Interior Ministry secretary Azam Suleman Khan said Hammad Azhar and Mufti Abdur Rauf were among those arrested on March 26. Hammad is the son of JeM founder Masood Azhar, while Rauf is his brother.

The Foreign Office said, “Similarly, the 22 pin locations shared by India have been examined. No such camps exist. Pakistan is willing to allow visits, on request, to these locations.” 

It said Pakistan shared “preliminary findings” of its probe with India along with a set of questions. “Subsequently, the diplomatic corps in Islamabad was briefed as well,” the FO said.

India handed over the dossier to the acting high commissioner of Pakistan in New Delhi on February 27 with specific details of JeM’s complicity in the Pulwama attack that killed 40 CRPF personnel, and the presence of JeM terror camps and its leadership in Pakistan.

The FO said soon after receiving the dossier, Pakistan constituted a probe team, detained a number of people and initiated work on the technical aspects of social media content, a main basis of the Indian documents.

The FO claimed that during the course of the probe, “all aspects of the information provided by India have been thoroughly examined, including the confessional video of Adil Dar, claim of responsibility for the attack, WhatsApp and Telegram numbers used to share videos and messages in support of the Pulwama attack, list of 90 individuals suspected of belonging to a proscribed organisation and 22 pin locations of alleged training camps”.

Service providers have been requested for data, including relevant details of activities and contacts of the GSM number provided by India, it said. A request for assistance from WhatsApp has also been made to the US government, it said, adding that additional information and documents from India would be essential to continue the investigation.