Sandeep Rana

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 30

War veteran and defence expert Major Gen (retd) GD Bakshi and former RAW chief RSN Singh slammed the move of calling a five-member Pakistani Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to visit Pathankot Air Force base in connection with the probe into the January 2 terror attack.“I do not agree with this step seeing our old experience with Pakistan. You saw what happened after 26/11, there were a lot of talks, but nothing has been done to bring perpetrators of the crime to book by that country. It is a white lie that Pakistani army and its ISI were not involved in the Pathankot attack, without their support it could not have happened. Moreover, if investigation is to be done in the case then the investigating police team should be there and not military officers,” said Bakshi on the sidelines of a seminar on national security threats in Sector 37 here.“Our PM trusted Pakistan and attended Nawaz Sharif’s granddaughter’s wedding as a goodwill gesture. But, what they did to us, a few days later they stabbed us in the back with a terrorist strike in Pathankot,” he added.Col (retd) RSN Singh, former RAW chief, is also not hopeful of the development. “Will this bring any change in the attitude of Pakistan? Will it have any deliverables? I do not think it will have any positive effect,” said Col Singh.