-
Tips for becoming a good boxer - November 6, 2020
-
7 expert tips for making your hens night a memorable one - November 6, 2020
-
5 reasons to host your Christmas party on a cruise boat - November 6, 2020
-
What to do when you’re charged with a crime - November 6, 2020
-
Should you get one or multiple dogs? Here’s all you need to know - November 3, 2020
-
A Guide: How to Build Your Very Own Magic Mirror - February 14, 2019
-
Our Top Inspirational Baseball Stars - November 24, 2018
-
Five Tech Tools That Will Help You Turn Your Blog into a Business - November 24, 2018
-
How to Indulge on Vacation without Expanding Your Waist - November 9, 2018
-
5 Strategies for Businesses to Appeal to Today’s Increasingly Mobile-Crazed Customers - November 9, 2018
India Hopes to Neutralize Remaining Gunmen At Pathankot Air Base Sunday
This includes two Garud commandos, two IAF personnel and six others from the security corp.
Advertisement
One of the Indian security men killed in the attack was Subedar Fateh Singh, who won gold and silver medals in the first Commonwealth Shooting Championships held in 1995, the National Rifle Association of India said.
“On the morning of January 1, we acquired intelligence enter that there are a couple of terrorists who’re heading in the direction of Air Force Station Pathankot”, he stated.
The Times of India reported that Pakistan Army’s General Headquarters in Rawalpindi may have been responsible for the Pathankot attack on Saturday, an assessment by a section of the top Indian security establishment found. The army headquarters is reportedly unhappy with the positive response garnered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Lahore last week.
The Pathankot air base houses dozens of fighter jets and is important for its strategic location about 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the Pakistan border.
It took 12 hours for information on the hijacking to be circulated, according to news reports, allowing the attackers to keep the initiative.
Security agencies were probing possible local support the terrorists got in the area after sneaking into India from Pakistan on December 30-31.
Pathankot, Jan. 3 (ANI): The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Sunday confirmed that the operation to flush out the terrorists from the Air Force Station in Pathankot was still underway, including that a complete of seven safety personnel have been martyred thus far. The Himalayan region of Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan, but is claimed in its entirety by both.
India accuses Pakistan of arming and training Kashmir’s insurgents, a charge Islamabad denies, and the attack was viewed by many in India as an attempt to unravel recent progress in the country’s relationship with its archrival.
Police have said they’re investigating whether the gunmen came from the Indian portion of Kashmir, where rebels routinely stage attacks, or from Pakistan.
Some senior officials of Punjab Police led by DGP Suresh Arora were also present at the base.
In Pakistan, Sharif’s foreign affairs adviser, Sartaj Aziz, said in a radio interview Saturday that Pakistan wants to consolidate its improved relations with India.
Pakistan has condemned the attack and said it wanted to continue to build on the goodwill created by the impromptu meeting between Modi and Sharif last month.
“These kinds of attacks are nothing new and have generally been the outcome of the dispute of India and Pakistan over Kashmir”, said Noor Ahmed Baba, a political scientist at Central University in Indian Kashmir’s capital, Srinagar.
Advertisement
But with Modi’s own diplomatic engagement with Islamabad at stake, the BJP has given no indication yet that the planned talks have been threatened by the attack.