Indian security forces killed one more gunman on Sunday at an air base attacked by militants a day earlier, leaving one assailant still suspected at large in the sprawling facility near the border with Pakistan.
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The official said the officer and two other soldiers were injured Sunday when a bomb they were trying to defuse exploded during a search of the site.
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The attack started before dawn on Saturday, when a group of gunmen – wearing Indian army uniforms – entered the residential quarters on the base. “Through timely and prompt action by all agencies, the likely plan of the terrorists to destroy valuable assets of the Air Force has been foiled”, the officials said.
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The base is on the highway that connects India’s insurgency-plagued Jammu and Kashmir state with the rest of the country.
“Previous attempts at dialogue between the nuclear-armed neighbours have been derailed by similar incidents but, as Pakistani authorities condemned the raid, experts suggested the latest negotiations would prove more durable”, it opined.
In July three gunmen said to be Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba militants killed seven people including four policemen in an attack in the Sikh-majority state of Punjab.
Strongly condemning the “heinous” terror attack on a key Indian Air Force base by Pakistani terrorists, the USA today asked all countries in the region to work together to disrupt and dismantle terrorist networks. Rebels in India’s portion of Kashmir have been fighting since 1989 for independence or merger with Pakistan.
Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu, for his part, said he had directed the railway police to remain vigilant.
The breaching of the base’s defenses has raised questions about lax security on the worldwide border in Punjab, which is a known route for drug smugglers and is less closely guarded than the disputed frontier running through Kashmir.
Sushma Swaraj met Shiv Shankar Menon, former foreign secretary and national security adviser; Shyam Saran, former foreign secretary; Satinder Lambah, former envoy to Pakistan and former special envoy to the prime minister who conducted back channel talks with Pakistan; and four former envoys to Pakistan, T.C.A. Raghavan, Sharad Sabharwal, Satyabrata Pal and G. Parthasarathy. “There was no further firing and it was not certain whether there are other terrorists or not”, he said. The foreign secretaries of both nations are scheduled to meet in Islamabad later this month. A strong posse of security forces from the NSG, Army, Air Force and Punjab Police has ensured that there is no escape from the area. Officials at the home ministry, concede that specific intelligence inputs were available, suggesting attempts by terrorists to infiltrate the military installation in Pathankot area.
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While all the four attackers were killed in the day-long gunbattle on Saturday, three security men were also killed in the operation.
