Security forces initially said they had killed all the attackers during a 14-hour gun battle and secured the base.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged his Pakistani counterpart to take “firm and immediate action” against those behind an attack on an Indian air base near the country’s border with Pakistan.
Earlier, a senior Indian security officer said a fifth attacker had been killed, in addition to four gunmen killed earlier at the Pathankot base in the northern state of Punjab near the border with Pakistan.
Questioning Narendra Modi’s NDA government’s “inconsistent” Pakistan policy, AAP on January 05, 2016 attacked the Narendra Modi-led dispensation over the Pathankot attack and asked why the government could not avert loss of soldiers’ lives when it had “pinpointed” information about the plot.
Action against the UJC would be seen as an indication that Pakistan’s powerful military is willing to reduce tensions with India in line with Mr Sharif’s policy.
Alliance spokesman Syed Sadaqat Hussain issued a statement to Current News Service, based in the Indian portion of Kashmir, saying the attack carried a message for India that no security establishment was out of the militants’ reach.
Terrorists attacked the Indian Air Force (IAF) base at Pathankot in Punjab before dawn on Saturday, leaving seven security personnel dead.
“The government of Pakistan has said publicly and privately that it’s not going to discriminate among terrorist groups as part of its counter-terrorism operation, he said”.
India is expected to send to Pakistan a letter rogatory (LR) along with DNA samples of the slain terrorists and their phone call details.
Indian security officials have given conflicting accounts on whether the attackers at the Pathankot air base were still active after Home Minister Rajnath Singh declared on Saturday they had been “neutralised”.
Parrikar said the NSG had worked out the route of ingress of the militants and would take steps to block them.
“As I highlighted earlier, given the magnitude of the operation of the air base, the operation will continue to be concluded till we are able to fully render safe the base”.
He further said that Pakistan in a statement made privately and publically had said that they would target all the terrorist groups and not discriminate when it comes to targeting them.
He stressed that the base was a “complicated area” spread over almost 2,000 hectares (5,000 acres) and housing 3,000 families.
The two leaders had a seemingly impromptu meeting on November 30 at the Paris climate summit.
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Pathankot attack took place just a week after PM Modi visited Lahore to wish Pakistan’s PM on his birthday and we were talking about getting on good terms with the neighbouring nation.
