Pathankot air force base is just 35 km from the worldwide border with Pakistan. The attack may have been carried out by Jaish-e-Mohammed, according to security officers, based on an initial analysis.
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Indian families grieve after soldiers’ deaths.
The holed up militants were discovered in the forested area on the backside of the air base from where they are reported to have entered.
People in this rural eastern OR town are used to worrying about friction between the federal government and locals, but the armed takeover of a nearby national wildlife refuge is raising concerns to a new high.
Indian security forces killed one more gunman on Sunday at an air base attacked by militants a day earlier, leaving one assailant still suspected at large in the sprawling facility near the border with Pakistan.
At least seven soldiers and four gunmen have been killed in the fighting at the Pathankot air force base in Punjab province so far.
Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi 4 terrorists had been neutralised final night, whereas two extra have been being engaged by the safety forces on the base.
Four militants and seven security personnel were killed Saturday.
The search operations at Pathankot air force base will continue until all areas have been completely secured, Maj.
An Indian army helicopter flies above the Pathankot air force base in Pathankot, India, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016.
The defence ministry said no aircraft or military equipment had been damaged in the fighting.
Indian-administered Kashmir has seen a long-running insurgency against rule from Delhi, and Kashmir has been a flashpoint in relations between Pakistan and India for almost 70 years since independence.
His colleagues’ slowness to react was one of several security lapses in the buildup to the pre-dawn raid, blamed by India on Pakistani militants and a blow to the recent improvement in ties between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
Police said they do not know if the gunmen came from Kashmir or from Pakistan.
In a surprise move, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also visited Lahore on December 25 to greet his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif on his birthday in person.
Modi held the meeting soon after his return after his two-day visit to Karnataka.
Sushma Swaraj met Shiv Shankar Menon, former foreign secretary and national security adviser; Shyam Saran, former foreign secretary; Satinder Lambah, former envoy to Pakistan and former special envoy to the prime minister who conducted back channel talks with Pakistan; and four former envoys to Pakistan, T.C.A. Raghavan, Sharad Sabharwal, Satyabrata Pal, and G. Parthasarathy.
The Foreign Secretary-level talks were scheduled for January 15 in Islamabad.
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No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
