Pathankot Air Base Terror Attack

Shahid Latif - a terrorist shot dead in Pakistan's Sialkot on Tuesday, allegedly provided logistical support for four Pakistani terrorists who attacked the Pathankot Air Force station in January seven years ago.

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

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...

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 ...

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.

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.

Lt Col Niranjan EK, head of NSG's bomb disposal unit who was killed while sanitising a terrorist's body during the Pathankot air base terror attack in January, has been honoured with the Shaurya Chakra, the third highest peacetime gallantry medal of the country, on the eve of the 70th Independence Day.

The NIA's clean chit to Pakistan in the Pathankot terror attack was a "monumental failure", Congress leader Digvijaya Singh said today, demanding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should explain "if Pakistan did not have a hand in the attack, then who did".

The decision to bury the bodies of four JeM terrorists, killed during the Pathankot IAF base assault, was taken after Islamabad dismissed NIA's claims about their identity as "unverifiable".

Shahid Latif - a terrorist shot dead in Pakistan's Sialkot on Tuesday, allegedly provided logistical support for four Pakistani terrorists who attacked the Pathankot Air Force station in January seven years ago.

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

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...

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 ...

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.

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.

Lt Col Niranjan EK, head of NSG's bomb disposal unit who was killed while sanitising a terrorist's body during the Pathankot air base terror attack in January, has been honoured with the Shaurya Chakra, the third highest peacetime gallantry medal of the country, on the eve of the 70th Independence Day.

The NIA's clean chit to Pakistan in the Pathankot terror attack was a "monumental failure", Congress leader Digvijaya Singh said today, demanding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should explain "if Pakistan did not have a hand in the attack, then who did".

The decision to bury the bodies of four JeM terrorists, killed during the Pathankot IAF base assault, was taken after Islamabad dismissed NIA's claims about their identity as "unverifiable".