India will hand over DNA samples of the four terrorists killed in the Pathankot attacks to the Pakistani Joint Investigation Team that is looking into the incident. The five-member team, which arrived in New Delhi on Sunday, is expected to locate the families of these militants in Pakistan and match the samples.

A senior government official said the National Investigation Agency had gathered evidence, which was not “perfunctory or nebulous”, on the role of the Jaish-e-Mohammad terror group that India blames for the attack, The Hindu reported. The NIA prepared a dossier on JeM chief Masood Azhar, his brother Abdul Rauf, who was one of the handlers, and another handler Kaashif Jaan, who had dropped the terrorists to the Punjab border on the night of December 31. The official said they wanted the records of the calls the four JeM terrorists had made to six numbers in Pakistan, which belonged to various service providers.

The JIT is scheduled to visit the Pathankot airbase on Tuesday. The team, which includes representatives from the Inter-Services Intelligence, Military Intelligence and police, will question all three witnesses in the case, namely Punjab Police superintendent of police Salwinder Singh, his jeweller friend Rajesh Verma and cook Madan Gopal. However, it will get access to only those areas of the facility where militants engaged in a gunbattle with security personnel. The five members of the probe team have been granted a seven-day visa for their India visit.