Operation concludes at Pathankot airbase, 4 soldiers, 4 suspects dead

BJP on Saturday said the resumed dialogue with Pakistan can not be revoked due to "one attack" and accused Congress of "politicising" the Pathankot terror incident.

Following the terror attack on the Indian Air Force station in Punjab's Pathankot in the wee hours of Saturday, a high level meeting was held at the South Block in New Delhi to take of the situation.

An IAF chopper was seeing hovering above the site and a National Security Guard team has also teamed up along with the Indian Army to foil the terrorist plans.

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lahore initiative, the Environment Minister said the onus was on Pakistan to follow the solemn promise given to India in 2004 that it will not allow its land to be used for terrorism. India blamed Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants for that attack.

Earlier today, around five militants in Army fatigue opened fire near the Air Force station here early in the morning today and a massive gunbattle occurred between the security forces and the attackers.

"We want peace but if terrorists carry out attacks on Indian soil we will give them a befitting reply", Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh said in televised remarks. Gunmen attacked the air force base near the border with P... There is a heavy deployment of security in and around the air force base. It's also very close to India's border with Pakistan.

"These kinds of attacks are nothing new and have generally been the outcome of the dispute of India and Pakistan over Kashmir", said Noor Ahmed Baba, a political scientist at Central University in Indian Kashmir's capital, Srinagar.

India and Pakistan have fought two wars over Kashmir since independence and partition in 1947.

And while insurgents frequently target police in the volatile Kashmir region, Punjab, a majority-Sikh state, has largely been spared the violence.

Pakistan later condemned the attack and said it wanted to build on the goodwill created in the recent high-level contacts.

Terrorists from Pakistan had launched a terror attack on Dinanagar town in Punjab's Gurdaspur district on July 27, 2015, leaving seven people dead, including a senior police official. The foreign secretaries of both nations are scheduled to meet in Islamabad later this month.

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