The statement said “specific and actionable information in this regard has been provided to Pakistan”. The policeman was freed the next day, and warned security forces that a team of heavily armed militants was in the region.
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Launching a frontal attack on Prime Minister Modi, the Shiv Sena asked the former to introspect the security situation in the country post the Pathankot attack.
Officials said they had received intelligence about a possible attack and had beefed up security at the air field and repulsed the attackers before they reached any sensitive areas.
But analyst Khadim Hussain said the attack on the air base along with a Taliban surge in Afghanistan indicated that elements of the Pakistani military were not on board with the negotiations. A Defense Ministry spokesman told CNN Tuesday that “combing operations” were ongoing, but declined to confirm whether all the militants, some of whom were understood to have been holed up at the facility, had been killed or apprehended.
On the Congress’s criticism that Modi had addressed a press conference amid the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, he said: “We will respond to the Congress’s allegation in their language at appropriate time”.
We will be able to establish everything once we have some evidence to support our claims.
Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Tuesday has called his Pakistani counterpart Lt. Gen (R) Nasir Janjua, The NewsTribe.com learnt from Indian Media.
Phone records indicate the perpetrators used Singh’s phone inside the air base by mid-afternoon on January 1, according to the Indian Express, 12 hours before they were detected through aerial surveillance.
“I can’t say whether ISI is involved or not. The challenge of terrorism calls for strengthening our resolve to a cooperative approach”. “Therefore, I am not fixing any deadline to the case but we will try to complete the probe soon”, Mr Kumar said. NIA had yesterday registered three cases in connection with the brazen terror strike, including the murder of a taxi driver by suspected terrorists, kidnapping of a Superintendent of Police rank officer and attack on the IAF base on the intervening night of January one and two.
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The NIA officials were seen examining the bodies of the slain terrorists along with a team of forensic experts.
