At least two of the attackers were killed and security forces exchanged fire with the other two, she said.
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India’s home minister Rajnath Singh said India wanted peace with Pakistan but “if there is any kind of terror attack on India, we will give it a fitting reply”.
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal condemned the attack, while the Congress said incidents of terrorism are on a rise in Punjab. It’s also very close to India’s border with rival Pakistan.
The remaining terrorists have been cordoned to the domestic area of Air Force Station and the technical area of the airbase is safe.
Saturday’s attack comes just a week after India’s prime minister Narendra Modi made an unannounced visit to Pakistan to meet his counterpart Nawaz Sharif.
“The first (attack in Punjab) was in Dinanagar in Gurdaspur and now in Panthankot, where our frontline security installation is located”, he said. “I could hear the loud gunshots being fired”, Dinesh Sharma, resident of Dhaki area, said.
According to Indian media, the assailants are four to five in number.
Punjab Police Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Hardeep Singh Dhillon said that the counter attack was in progress.
The local Brigade Commander of Army is coordinating the operations and in addition, UAVs of the India Army & Indian Air Force have also been put into action to get inputs.
“The terrorists were contained in one area of the air force station”.
There were intelligence reports that terrorists could attack defence installations in the region around the New Year.
Pathankot, in Punjab state, is on the road that connects India’s insurgency-wracked Jammu and Kashmir state with the rest of the country. Gwalior is the biggest station of IAF fighter jets.
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On Friday, a high alert was sounded in Punjab after 4-5 suspected Pakistani terrorists in army uniform abducted and thrashed a Superintendent of Police and his two associates before dumping them some distance away and speeding away in his vehicle last night.
