Pathankot Attack LIVE: Indications That Some Recovered Material Are Made In Pakistan, Says Parrikar | All Developments | News World India

Security forces continued search and combing operation inside the Pathankot airbase on Tuesday – the fourth day after the attack on the frontline Air Force Station (AFS) by suspected Pakistani terrorists. The counter offensive against the terrorists at Punjab’s Pathankot airbase was going on for the past 77 hours.

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  • 40-50 kg bullets found on terrorists. Early indications suggest some of the material is made in Pak: Defence Minister Parrikar on Pathankot
  • Combing operations are still on for safety purposes, likely to end by tomorrow: Parrikar
  • NIA tests will confirm the identity of Bodies: Parrikar
  • Security personnel killed in the attack will get ‘battle casualty status’ and all its benefits: Parrikar
  • Six terrorists have been killed at the air base, Bodies were found at two differennt places.
  • Our forces have done a commendable job given the complexity of the air base: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Pathankot attack
  • I congratulate all security personnel for successfully completing the operation: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Pathankot attack
  • Defusing of Unexploded grenades or shells causing intermittent explosion at the IAF base: Reports.
  • Loud explosion heard at Pathankot airbase, just before the scheduled press conference of Defence Minister Manohar parrikar, who is currently in Pathankot.
  • Defence Minister Manohar Parrrikar along with the chiefs of Army and IAF to address a joint press conference shortly, formal announcement of Operation closure likely.
    • The terrorists were from Pakistan, this can be said on basis of phone calls that were made: NIA DG Sharad Kumar

    Three FIRs have been lodged so far: Sharad Kumar (NIA, DG) #PathankotAttack pic.twitter.com/5KfXLlhSKR

    — ANI (@ANI_news) January 5, 2016

  • According to reports, India’s National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval spoke to Pakistani counterpart Naseer Khan Janjua over the Pathankot terror attack early morning. However the details of the conversation are not known yet.
  • Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar along with the chiefs of Air Force and Army will visit Pathankot on Tuesday.
  • Last rites of NSG Lt Col Niranjan Kumar who lost his life in #Pathankot attack, being performed in Palakkad, Kerala. pic.twitter.com/hXRqbRPoZE — ANI (@ANI_news) January 5, 2016

    • The hijacking of Police Superintendent Salwinder Singh’s car by terrorists disguised in uniform should have set off alarm bells and helped prevent the deadly weekend attack on the Pathankot air base. However, a second senior officer in the Punjab Police told Reuters, on condition of anonymity, that Singh’s call to a colleague in the early hours of Friday morning was not taken seriously “because his record has not been clean”. The police sources said Singh had just been transferred after a woman constable filed a sexual harassment case against him.
    • Salwinder Singh, the Punjab police officer who says he was abducted by the terrorists who attacked the Pathankot airbase, said that he instantly knew his abductors were terrorists as they had AK-47 guns and wore military jackets. “I knew right away that these were terrorists…They had AK-47 guns and they threatened to shoot us…They were speaking in Urdu, Hindi,” said the police officer, who was interrogated for about six hours by the National Investigation Agency or NIA on Monday.
    • Reacting strongly to the Pathankot airbase terror attack, Shiv Sena on Tuesday took on Centre saying that the Narendra Modi government must avenge death of our soldiers.
    • Search and combing operation by security forces continued on Monday night also. The operation was stepped up on Tuesday to scan every inch of the air base, an Air Force official at the base said. NSG, Army and Air Force commandos were conducting a thorough mopping of the entire area inside the base.
    • Firing could be heard from inside during Monday night and early Tuesday. Officials said the firing was linked to the mopping operation. IAF helicopters flew over the base to assist ground forces in the counter offensive against the terrorists.
    • “The operations are still going on. We have been able to eliminate the fifth terrorist. Combing and search operation continues,” Inspector General of the NSG Major General Dushyant Singh told the media on Monday evening.

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    • The terrorists infiltrated the base on Saturday, leading to fierce gun battle with security forces. Four terrorists were killed on Saturday after 15 hours of fighting. The fifth terrorist, according to the security forces, was killed on Monday.
    • Seven security personnel, including an officer of the National Security Guards (NSG), an IAF Garud commando and five Defence Services Corps (DSC) personnel, were killed by the terrorists.
    • The United Jehad Council (UJC), an umbrella grouping of Kashmiri militant groups based in Pakistan, on Monday claimed responsibility for the attack.

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