Terrorists are believed to have taken route often used by drug smugglers to infiltrate into the border state of Punjab and unleash the deadly attack on the IAF base in Pathankot.
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The operation against militants holed up at Pathankot air base entered the third day today after explosions and firing continued intermittently overnight.
Meanwhile, interacting with the media Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal described the Pathankot terror strike as “most unfortunate incident” and said, “Such incidents must be dealt with a heavy hand so as to avoid any threat to unity and integrity of the nation”.
Mr Badal added that the Punjab government was also chalking out a strategy to prepare a second line of defence along the Pakistan border.
Badal, who held a review meeting with senior police officials after the Pathankot attack, also said that he has directed the police authorities to get “mapping done of all vulnerable points along the border”. “We will see how we will act as second line of defence, we will have to use CCTVs, laser technology, ground detection system which are internationally-used across borders, specially this area, Gurdaspur and Pathankot… it needs to be done”, he said.
He also said Punjab will demand sensitive status for the border of the state shared with Pakistan.
She said the Union government will step up vigil on the worldwide borders and any terrorists will be given a befitting reply.
Sukhbir also flagged off a train from Raman Mandi to Sri Nanded Sahib and four buses to Salasar Dham in Rajasthan under the Mukh Mantri Tirath Darshan Yatra Yojana.
Terrorists crossed border with help of drugs rackets? The united effort of the state and central security agencies have once again foiled the nefarious designs of the anti-national forces, he said.
The body of Ekagar Singh was found near the SP’s abandoned vehicle at a place 35 kms from Pathankot.It is believed that the men, who abducted the SP and two others, first snatched Ekagar’s Innova who was on his way back from Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir.
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It is pertinent to say that Amritsar has attained the standing of heritage metropolis and an quantity of Rs. sixty nine crores has been allotted to protect the monuments, mute testimonials of Punjab’s superb heritage apart from giving facelift to Harminder Sahib’s façade at an outlay of Rs. 211 crore.
