Singh said India wanted peace with Pakistan but that any terrorist attack would get “a befitting response”, a statement analysts described as restrained.
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Three security personnel belonging to the National Security Guard were injured on Sunday after a blast during combing operations at the Pathankot air base, which was attacked by Pakistani fidayeen militants on Saturday. But two hours later, more gunfire erupted and an air force helicopter was seen firing at an area of the base, a major installation located about 430 kilometers (267 miles) north of New Delhi.
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DIG (Border) Vijay Pratap said that two terrorists are still hiding inside the Air Force Base and the search operation is underway.
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Four attackers have already been killed and the country’s home secretary said he hoped the remaining two would be “neutralised” overnight.
“We urge all countries in the region to work together to disrupt and dismantle terrorist networks and to bring to justice the perpetrators of this heinous act”, Kirby said.
India also wants LeT leaders responsible for planning the Mumbai attack prosecuted, a demand that has been thwarted by Islamabad.
Fresh firing started on Sunday at the Pathankot Air Force base with one militant suspected to be holed up in the area.
Rebels routinely stage attacks in Indian-held Kashmir, where they’ve been fighting since 1989 for an independent Kashmir or its merger with Pakistan.
It was later found abandoned on a highway connecting Pathankot to Kashmir.
A senior air force officer, Air Marshal Anil Khosla, told reporters in New Delhi that the base will not be declared fully secured until the entire area is thoroughly checked by troops.
The Pathankot air base houses dozens of jet fighters and is important for its strategic location about 50km from the Pakistan border.
The gunbattle – which lasted about 14 hours – came just a week after India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise visit to arch rival Pakistan.
Police said they suspected the gunmen were militants, and were investigating whether they had come from the Indian portion of Kashmir or from Pakistan. The two heads of government also had an unscheduled meeting at the Paris climate change talks.
Pakistan denies these allegations, claiming it provides Kashmiri separatists only moral and political support for their cause of an independent Muslim homeland. The foreign secretaries of both nations are scheduled to meet in Islamabad later this month.
This is the second big terror attack in Punjab within a year after three militants stormed a police station in Dina Nagar before being killed in an encounter in July last year. Four other security men were also injured in the blast.
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Talks had been stalled over numerous contentious issues, particularly the November 2008 attack by 10 Pakistani gunmen on two luxury hotels and a Jewish centre in Mumbai, in which over 166 people died.
