Indian media releases CCTV footage of Gurdaspur attack

Rebels have been fighting for an independent Kashmir or its merger with Pakistan since 1989.

Yesterday news on Indian media also circulated that the attackers came from Pakistan from “Sialkot” sector while some have claimed that the “whole operation” was joint effort of “ISI and Pakistan Rangers”. Lashkar-e-Taiba did not respond to requests for comment. Although the attack could deepen mutual mistrust, the Modi administration is trading very cautiously as any inadequate reaction could derail the recent Ufa initiative of Prime Minister Modi. He has not called off talks between the two nations’ national security advisers agreed with Sharif in Russian Federation.

No date has but been set.

Sources say, the talks will focus on Pakistan-sponsored terror. “That won’t happen this time”, said Nitin Gokhale, senior fellow at the Vivekananda global Foundation, a think-tank close to the government. Incidentally, the terror attack took place few hours before British Minister in charge of the Cabinet Office Oliver Letwin’s arrival in India on a three-day visit. Modi is not expected to speak. The auto, which was hijacked by the terrorists and on which they came to the police station complex, was also being examined.

“They walked ahead silently … in entrance of my automotive”. Three AK-47 rifles, 17 magazines, 55 cartridges, one Rocket launcher, three hand grenades, bullet proof jackets, night vision device and heap of unused bullets were recovered from the site of the encounter, he said. Five explosives were found on railway tracks.

Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday said that he did not want to indulge in a blame game over the Gurdaspur terror attack but there was no denying the fact that the responsibility of guarding the Indo-Pak border was with the Border Security Force (BSF).

It is fenced virtually all the size and lit brightly sufficient to be seen from area, however at floor degree a lot of it’s loosely guarded.

In the rainy season, swollen rivers topple stretches of fence and long grass provides cover – exploited by traffickers smuggling increasing quantities of heroin into Indian Punjab.

This was the first real assault in Punjab in eight years.

Dinanagar town, which is just 12km from the India-Pakistan border, is located 25km from the Jammu and Kashmir border and 235km from Chandigarh.

“The gunmen crossed over while in the Jammu area from a edge region between Pakistan and Indian”, she stated.

DGP Saini said “Inspection of the bodies show they were Muslims”, implying that they were not Khalistani terrorists.

A man heading to buy vegetables in his Maruti auto became their target. Only seven persons including a superintendent of police were killed – and the country has a crop of new heroes to thank for averting catastrophe.