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8 February 2016,

Pakistan clears JeM chief of role in Indian air base attack

Sameer Patil, Fellow, National Security, Ethnic Conflict and Terrorism Studies, was quoted by Benar News in an article on the Pathankot terror attacks.

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Below is the quote from Sameer Patil;

Sameer Patil, a security analyst at Mumbai-based think-tank Gateway House, agreed that the outcome of the Pakistani investigation could adversely affect the peace process.

“Now, I think, India will spare no efforts in naming and shaming Pakistan at the international level as a country that promotes cross-border terrorism,” Patil told BenarNews.

India will not resume dialogue with Pakistan unless the establishment acts against the perpetrators of the Pathankot attack, Patil said.

“India has seen such denials from Pakistan earlier as well,” he said, pointing to the case of Hafiz Sayeed, the head of the Jama’at-ud-Da’wah militant group, who was accused of masterminding the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai.

On Monday, David Coleman Headley, an American convicted of helping to plot the attack that killed 164 people in India’s financial hub, told a court in United States that lectures by Sayeed motivated him to join the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, Patil noted.

Here is the full article on Benar News.