Terrorists trying to disrupt efforts to bring peace between India, Pak: Sharif

According to the BBC, six militants and several Indian soldiers were killed during four days of gun battle between the two sides. “He should have taken opposition parties into confidence before taking such a step”, Congress leader Pramod Tiwari said when asked about Nawaz Sharif calling up Prime Minister Modi to give assurance that they would act against those responsible for Pathankot attack.

“Specific and actionable information in this regard has been provided to Pakistan”, the statement read. Modi’s office said Sharif promised “prompt and decisive action”.

Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi held a meeting Monday to review both the attacks, which took place about a week after he visited Lahore in an effort to boost a flagging peace process with the rival nation.

Some gaps led to security lapses, leading to the pre-dawn terror attack on Saturday, the minister said. A Defense Ministry spokesman told CNN Tuesday that “combing operations” were ongoing, but declined to confirm whether all the militants, some of whom were understood to have been holed up at the facility, had been killed or apprehended.

India is mulling whether or not to go ahead with the talks with Pakistan, a government official said on Monday, and would reach a decision after operations at the air base are concluded.

Security forces combed the property looking for explosives, Parrikar said, and it didn’t appear any militants are left on the base.

India’s Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday told journalists that “all six terrorists were neutralised”.

On Monday, in a statement, an alliance of Kashmiri militant groups the United Jihad Council (UJC) claimed the deadly attack on the IAF’s Pathankot airbase, saying the attack was a message to India that Kashmiri fighters could strike at any sensitive installation across India.

The report said that his e-mails to the Pakistani woman led to Kumar’s arrest.

The attack has proven that our borders are not safe, India’s internal security is in shambles and the only national work being done is giving condolences to the martyred on social networking sites, the Sena said in a hard-hitting editorial in party mouthpiece “Saamana”. It added that in case this had happened during the Congress regime, demands to attack Pakistan to teach it a lesson would have been made.