The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday, 20 February, has taken over the probe of the Pulwama terror attack and re-registered the case. The Ministry of Home Affairs on Tuesday, 19 February, transferred the case to the NIA.
On Wednesday, the Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Ajay Bisaria met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh amid rising tension between New Delhi and Islamabad over the recent Pulwama terror attack.
Earlier in the day, New Zealand became the first country to pass a motion in its Parliament condemning the 14 February attack.
Meanwhile, France said it will move a proposal at the UN in a “couple of days” to ban Masood Azhar, chief of the Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad, which claimed responsibility for the Pulwama attack that left 40 CRPF personnel dead.
