New Delhi: The US has handed over evidence confirming that the attack on Pathankot airbase did come from Pakistan. India had blamed Pakistan-based jihadi group Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) for orchestrating the brutal assault.

The US has informed NIA that the IP addresses of Facebook accounts of JeM handlers who masterminded the January attack and IP address of the website of the outfit’s financial arm, Al Rahmat Trust, are located in Pakistan. The probe also revealed that FB groups accessed by friends of JeM handler Kashif Jaan were related to jihad and JeM and contained photos of the four killed terrorists – Nasir Hussain, Hafiz Abu Bakar, Umar Farooq and Abdul Qayum.

The web page of Al Rahmat Trust was uploaded on rangonoor.com and alqalamonline.com when the attack took place. This is to be underlined that the websites are administrated by one Tariq Siddiqui with a common e-mail for both sites and the address is – Rafah-e-Aam Society in Malir, Karachi.

“The US has confirmed that all these websites and IP addresses originated in Pakistan and these were uploaded around the time of the Pathankot attack,” an official said.

It was also revealed that JeM handler Kashif Jaan was using a Facebook account connected to the same mobile number which the attackers called from Pathankot after kidnapping Punjab police SP Salwinder Singh.