There is no evidence to suggest an insider hand in the terror attack at the Pathankot airbase, sources in the National Investigation Agency said on Tuesday.
Sources close to the investigation told CNN-News18 that they have ruled out any help to the terrorists either from someone in the Punjab Police or from inside the Pathankot airbase .
Investigators reached this conclusion after examining call dumps during the days of the attack from all mobile towers around the Pathankot IAF base .
While decoding the Pakistani conspiracy behind the terror attacks the NIA found that there were 37 calls made between a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operative and the terrorists who attacked the airbase on December 31, 2015.
The call records also showed that he was located to the Indo-Pak International Border and that he escorted the terrorists to the border before they crossed over to carry out the attack.
Another Jaish operative, Shahid Latif, who is also a former Indian jail convict, briefed the terrorists on Indian terrain and gave them logistical information, the investigations showed.
Latif was convicted under the narcotics law and spent more than 14 years in Indian jails before being deported to Pakistan. The hijackers of IC 814 had sought his release along with that of Maulana Masood Azhar. Lateef who was lodged in a Jammu jail then was shifted to Varanasi.
He was deported to Pakistan in 2010 after completing his jail term. NIA believes Latif used his knowledge about India to brief the terrorists.
Latif, according to NIA, is also directly linked to the Jaish front organisation Al Rehmat, which is suspected to have funded the Pathankot attack.
NIA, in its supplementary Letter Rogatory to Pakistan, has given details of credit card transactions of Shahid Latif. These credit cards were allegedly used to pay for web-hosting of rangonoor.com and alqahafaonline.com - the two websites which were used to collect funds for Al Rehmat Trust.
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