Pathankot Terror Attack

India launched Operation Sindoor, a decisive counter-terror strike, targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Precision air, artillery, and drone strikes hit Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba bases, including headquarters in Bahawalpur and Muridke. This tri-service operation demonstrated India's resolve to eliminate terror sanctuaries.

The visit of Pakistan's Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in the pathankot terror attack probe was on the basis of reciprocity and government is in touch with the authorities of that country on the matter, Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday.

Pakistan on Friday registered an FIR against the perpetrators of the pathankot terror attack that has stalled talks between the two countries, on the basis of leads provided by India.

Targeting the Modi government over its response to the pathankot terror attack, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said it was "mishandled" and stressed that the job of the national security adviser (NSA) is to formulate strategy and not tactics.

In the wake of the terror attack on Pathankot air base, security in Jammu & Kashmir especially the Air Force installations and the India-Pakistan border has been beefed up.

In the first official move to charge Maulana Masood Azhar for Pathankot IAF base terror attack in January, NIA has sought prosecution sanction against the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief, his brother Abdul Rauf and two handlers involved in the attack.

Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said that there being no reason to suspect that Pakistan would not fulfil its promise. He said that there are reports that Pakistan has taken some action.

BJP today said the resumed dialogue with Pakistan cannot be revoked due to "one attack" and accused Congress of "politicizing" the Pathankot terror incident.

National Investigation Agency (NIA) has approached probe agencies of some foreign countries including the US' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in connection with its probe into the pathankot terror attack.

A committee, set up following the pathankot terror attack, has submitted its report to the government and is learnt to have suggested use of technology and heightened vigil on riverine frontiers. It also flagged gaps and vulnerability in border fencing.

India has linked the future of the talks to action taken by Islamabad against those responsible for pathankot terror attack.

Army chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag on Wednesday asserted his force was “ready and capable” to take on any task assigned by the government, two days after defence minister Manohar Parrikar said “pain” must be inflicted on those who harm India, in the context of the pathankot terror attack.

Pakistan has arrested three suspects in connection with the attack on Pathankot airbase last month. They have been sent to a six-day police remand by an anti-terrorism court. Seven security personnel were killed when suspected terrorists of Jaish-e-Mohammad stormed the Pathankot airbase on Jan 2.

The bodies of four militants gunned down in encounter with security forces during the terror attack on the country's strategic air base here were sent for postmortem examination on Thursday, while combing operation to "sanitise" the entire air base was on its last leg.

At 9:20 am on January 1, Nasir, one of the intruders who attacked the Pathankot airbase, made a phone call from abducted jeweller Rajesh Verma’s mobile phone to a Pakistan phone number, +92 3000957212, while hiding inside the airbase.

Bruce Riedel, who worked in the White House and was among the few present at the Bill Clinton-Nawaz Sharif meeting in 1999 during Kargil war, said the attack is designed to prevent any detente between India and Pakistan after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surprise Christmas Day visit to Pakistan.

"The two foreign secretaries have spoken and they have mutually decided to reschedule the talks," external affairs ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup said on Thursday.

PM Modi in Mysuru said "enemies of humanity" who could not digest India's progress carried out the attack in Pathankot. Modi assured that the defence forces had the strength to defeat "the evil designs of our enemy". The fierce gunbattle claimed the lives of 3 security men, while 5 infiltrators were killed.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday released the photos of the four terrorists who attacked Pathankot Air Force base and sought help to identify them.

In the wake of the pathankot terror attack, chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday said it was high that both Centre and state governments evolved a consensus to deal with acts of terrorism.

India wants friendly relations with all its neighbours including Pakistan, but India will not tolerate cross-border terror, government said.

Stepping up its attack on the BJP in the backdrop of pathankot terror attack, ally Shiv Sena on Wednesday asked the party what changes it has made on issues, including Pakistan policy and Ram temple after assuming power with a massive mandate.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today chaired a second high-level meeting which reviewed the progress on leads provided by India on pathankot terror attack.

Defence minister Manohar Parrikar asserted that any individual or organisation causing pain to India should be paid back in the same coin but how, when and where "should be of our choice". "I am of the opinion, it should not be taken as a government thinking, I always believe that if anyone harms you, he understands the same language," he said.

After the pathankot terror attacks, Army has issued fresh guidelines to the public to prevent terror attacks.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the terror attack on the IAF base in Pathankot and encouraged leaders of India and Pakistan to build on recent high-level exchanges between the two nations to address all outstanding issues through dialogue.

China on Saturday condemned the terror attack at Pathankot, saying the country shares the “feeling and anger” of Indian people. The ambassador remarks came on the day PM Modi visited Pathankot airbase where senior officials of defence forces made a presentation about their joint operation.

Defence minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday confirmed that all the six terrorists who had attacked the Pathankot Air Force base have been neutralized by the security forces.

The standing committee of ministry of home affairs on Tuesday pulled up the Centre for the January 2 pathankot terror attack and said "something is seriously wrong with the country's counterterror security establishment."