Friday, A team of Indian investigators will visit Pakistan to further probe the terror attack on the IAF base in Pathankot in Punjab, the NIA announced .

We told them we want to send a team to Pakistan. They have welcomed the idea," National Investigation Agency Director General Sharad Kumar said.

Pakistani joint investigation team probing the Pathankot attack welcomed NIA's request for a visit to the neighbouring nation to carry out its own probe into the terror attack case in which  seven Indian soldiers were killed.

“The Pakistan JIT welcomed the idea that a team of NIA would like to visit Pakistan and carry forward the probe (into the attack),” NIA chief Sharad Kumar said.

Suspended Gurdaspur SP Salwinder Singh was among over a dozen witnesses questioned on Thursday at the NIA headquarters by a visiting Pakistan team regarding the Pathankot terror attack.

The Punjab Police officer, his cook Mandan Gopal, jeweller friend Rajesh Verma and other witnesses reached the National Investigation Agency (NIA) office where the Joint Investigation Team from Pakistan questioned them in the presence of NIA officials, informed sources told 
The JIT was given access to 16 witnesses including superintendent of police Salwinder Singh, Kumar said.