Pathankot Air Base

India has long borne the brunt of cross-border terrorism, with victims of the "dastardly" 2008 Mumbai terror attack and the 2016 Pathankot terror act, perpetrated by Pakistan-based terror groups, yet to get justice, New Delhi's envoy has told the UN

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday defended the NDA government's decision in 2016 to allow a Pakistani probe team including officials from spy agency ISI to visit the Pathankot air force base to probe a terror attack.

Six men have been detained in Punjab's Pathankot railway station amid reports by intelligence agencies that some terrorists are trying to carry out attacks in Delhi. The men were travelling in the Pooja Express from Jammu to Ajmer in Rajasthan, when security forces stopped the train at Pathankot late on Sunday and took them into custody for questio...

The Army is looking at electronic warfare and early-warning systems not only for the frontlines but also for the hinterland amid threats of more terror attacks like at the air base in Pathankot and the Army camp in Uri, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said in New Delhi today

A Rs. 2,000 crore blueprint to upgrade security at defence installations that has been caught up in bureaucratic red tape could finally get off the ground. The NDA government on Thursday declared the Armed Forces were being given "substantial financial powers" to revamp security of 3,000 sensitive installations without seeking approvals from the de...

A high alert has been sounded in Punjab's Pathankot district after a suspicious bag was found last evening. As soon as the bag containing three Army uniforms was spotted near the Mamoon Army Cantonment Base, the area was cordoned off. Army jawans, police teams and SWAT commandoes have launched a joint operation.

In January last year, heavily-armed terrorists entered the highly secure Pathankot air force base in Punjab and opened fire, killing seven security men before being shot dead in an 80-hour operation. After investigating what many believed were giant gaps in security, the forces identified 3,000 sensitive bases that need a security revamp and asked ...

President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday awarded Shaurya Chakras to the officers who took part in the surgical strike across the Line of Control last year. He also awarded the Shaurya Chakra posthumously to Lieutenant Colonel Niranjan Ek, martyred while recovering an improvised explosive device from the bodies of Pathankot terrorists in January 2016.

The airbase station in Pathankot, which had witnessed a terror attack last year, was put on high alert today and a massive search operation was initiated in the area following intelligence input about presence of suspicious men.

Six protected persons, a jailed terrorist and officials of Federal Bureau of Investigation and US Department of Justice figure as witnesses in the charge sheet filed by NIA in the January 2 Pathankot air base attack.

One of the terrorists who attacked the Pathankot air force base in January spoke to his mother in Pakistan on the cell phone and asked her to throw a feast for his friends after his death, reveal call intercepts submitted in court today by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar, his brother Abdul Rauf Asghar and two others of the Pakistan-based terror group have been formally charged for the deadly attack on the Pathankot air force base in January. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has named Masood Azhar as the mastermind of the January 2 attack in which heavily armed terrorists h...

Putting to end speculation about the number of terrorists involved in Pathankot attack, the government today made it clear that only four militants had entered the Air Force station to carry out the strike that left eight people dead.

Seven soldiers, including two officers, were killed in a huge terror attack on Tuesday at an army base near Jammu in the town of Nagrota, just 20 kilometres from the border with Pakistan. A group of heavily-armed suicide attackers in police uniforms entered the army base in Nagrota before daybreak with guns and grenades and forced their way in. The...

Authorities in Pakistan have frozen bank accounts with more than Rs 400 million of over 5,100 terror suspects, including Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar who is under "protective custody" after the terror attack on the Pathankot air base, officials said.

India has long borne the brunt of cross-border terrorism, with victims of the "dastardly" 2008 Mumbai terror attack and the 2016 Pathankot terror act, perpetrated by Pakistan-based terror groups, yet to get justice, New Delhi's envoy has told the UN

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday defended the NDA government's decision in 2016 to allow a Pakistani probe team including officials from spy agency ISI to visit the Pathankot air force base to probe a terror attack.

Six men have been detained in Punjab's Pathankot railway station amid reports by intelligence agencies that some terrorists are trying to carry out attacks in Delhi. The men were travelling in the Pooja Express from Jammu to Ajmer in Rajasthan, when security forces stopped the train at Pathankot late on Sunday and took them into custody for questio...

The Army is looking at electronic warfare and early-warning systems not only for the frontlines but also for the hinterland amid threats of more terror attacks like at the air base in Pathankot and the Army camp in Uri, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said in New Delhi today

A Rs. 2,000 crore blueprint to upgrade security at defence installations that has been caught up in bureaucratic red tape could finally get off the ground. The NDA government on Thursday declared the Armed Forces were being given "substantial financial powers" to revamp security of 3,000 sensitive installations without seeking approvals from the de...

A high alert has been sounded in Punjab's Pathankot district after a suspicious bag was found last evening. As soon as the bag containing three Army uniforms was spotted near the Mamoon Army Cantonment Base, the area was cordoned off. Army jawans, police teams and SWAT commandoes have launched a joint operation.

In January last year, heavily-armed terrorists entered the highly secure Pathankot air force base in Punjab and opened fire, killing seven security men before being shot dead in an 80-hour operation. After investigating what many believed were giant gaps in security, the forces identified 3,000 sensitive bases that need a security revamp and asked ...

President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday awarded Shaurya Chakras to the officers who took part in the surgical strike across the Line of Control last year. He also awarded the Shaurya Chakra posthumously to Lieutenant Colonel Niranjan Ek, martyred while recovering an improvised explosive device from the bodies of Pathankot terrorists in January 2016.

The airbase station in Pathankot, which had witnessed a terror attack last year, was put on high alert today and a massive search operation was initiated in the area following intelligence input about presence of suspicious men.

Six protected persons, a jailed terrorist and officials of Federal Bureau of Investigation and US Department of Justice figure as witnesses in the charge sheet filed by NIA in the January 2 Pathankot air base attack.

One of the terrorists who attacked the Pathankot air force base in January spoke to his mother in Pakistan on the cell phone and asked her to throw a feast for his friends after his death, reveal call intercepts submitted in court today by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar, his brother Abdul Rauf Asghar and two others of the Pakistan-based terror group have been formally charged for the deadly attack on the Pathankot air force base in January. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has named Masood Azhar as the mastermind of the January 2 attack in which heavily armed terrorists h...

Putting to end speculation about the number of terrorists involved in Pathankot attack, the government today made it clear that only four militants had entered the Air Force station to carry out the strike that left eight people dead.

Seven soldiers, including two officers, were killed in a huge terror attack on Tuesday at an army base near Jammu in the town of Nagrota, just 20 kilometres from the border with Pakistan. A group of heavily-armed suicide attackers in police uniforms entered the army base in Nagrota before daybreak with guns and grenades and forced their way in. The...

Authorities in Pakistan have frozen bank accounts with more than Rs 400 million of over 5,100 terror suspects, including Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar who is under "protective custody" after the terror attack on the Pathankot air base, officials said.