FAISALABAD: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has said that a joint investigation team has been constituted to investigate the Jan 2 terrorist attack on India’s Pathankot airbase.

Before the attack, foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India were set to hold talks on Jan 15, but both sides decided to reschedule them after India claimed that the attackers belonged to Pakistan.

Rana Sanaullah said that nothing about the work of joint investigation team would be made public until it finished its job.

Addressing a gathering of newly elected union council chairmen, who joined the Pakistan Muslim League-N on Sunday, he said enemies of Pakistan were trying to make the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project controversial. However, the government would not let this conspiracy to materialise.

He said that CPEC would bring prosperity to the region. “Some elements are trying to make the CPEC controversial like the Kalabagh dam project. It’s not old news that India released millions of dollars to its secret agency to stop the CPEC project from getting implemented,” he said.

Rana Sanaullah said that when Pakistan was making progress and investment was coming in, some elements opposed to development hatched a conspiracy and entangled the country in sit-ins.

Whenever Pakistan embarked on the journey to progress, its enemies started to mislead people and used them to stop development, he added.

The minister said that an organisation involved in attacks on media houses had been traced and facts would be made public soon.

Published in Dawn, January 18th, 2016