Dinanagar – Indian security forces have overcome an assault on a bus and a police station in Punjab, ending a 12-hour gun battle that left at least 10 people dead, including the attackers.
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India and Pakistan were locked in a furious verbal duel on Thursday over Monday’s Gurdaspur attack, which Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh told parliament, was carried out by cross-border terrorists who forded the swollen Ravi River where it enters Pakistan’s Punjab.
The three terrorists who raged a police headquarters in Punjab’s Gurdaspur early today “appeared to be tall, athletic and all around prepared”, said a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) commando of Punjab Police who was a piece of the counter-dread operation.
“We had issued condemnation in strongest terms the terrorist attack on Gurdaspur“.
Meanwhile, the event has been condemned by the government that was Pakistani, amid claims by officers that were Indian that the edge was intersected over by the opponents from Pakistan.
He said that the Indian government has been and would remain resolute in this regard.
Now nuclear-armed rivals, India and Pakistan have fought three wars since both nations gained independence in 1947. He added that India and Pakistan are in contact regarding the dates for the meeting between their respective national security advisers.
“The moment there is a move to hold talks, they ratchet up the tensions to say “call it off”.
A source at the High Commission in New Delhi said that chief ministers of Punjab and Haryana have refused to host the high commissioner after terror incident in Gurdaspur. They also knew where the police station is located as they snatched the vehicle and then straight away drove there and opened fire, the sources said.
Many Akali leaders including Bibi Jagir Kaur, Punjab BJP President Kamal Sharma, besides All India Anti-Terrorist Front Chairman, M S Bitta also paid tributes.
The Taliban took control of a large police base in a remote part of northeastern Afghanistan after 100 police and border guards joined the insurgents following three days of fighting, security officials said. Meanwhile, talking to media in Kapurthala, he defended the decision to allow Punjab Police to handle the anti-terror operation and said the mission has proved the capability of the force to deal with such situations at any point of time.
A railwayman averted a greater disaster when he spotted five explosive devices the that the men are believed to have planted on a railway track, minutes before a packed passenger train was due to approach.
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Two terror attacks have occurred in Kathua and Samba this year.
