Indian Air Force Base Secure After Attack

The attack came just a week after India's Prime Minister made an unannounced visit to Pakistan to meet his opposite number.

  

 India's Punjab State On Alert

 A 14-hour operation to secure an Indian miltary base attacked by suspected Islamist militants is over, police have said.

They added that all four gunmen involved in the raid on the Pathankot air force base in Punjab had been shot dead.
According to reports, three soldiers were also killed after the raiders invaded the base, about 267 miles north of New Delhi, early on Saturday.

Indian troops at the base

They entered the living quarters but failed to penetrate an area housing helicopters and other equipment, an air force spokeswoman said.
An Indian army spokesman said the attackers were members of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed Islamist group.

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"They are from Jaish, Jaish has claimed responsibility," Indian army Lieutenant General Satish Dua told reporters.
The attack came just a week after India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an unannounced visit to Pakistan to meet his opposite number Nawaz Sharif.
The visit was seen as a potential sign of thawing relations between the neighbouring countries, which both have nuclear weapons.
The two leaders also had an unscheduled meeting at the Paris climate change talks.
India accuses Pakistan of arming and training Kashmiri rebels, a charge denied by Islamabad.
India's Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday the country wanted peace with Pakistan.
But he warned: "If there is any kind of terror attack on India, we will give it a fitting reply."
In July, gunmen attacked a police station and a bus near Gurdaspur, a border town in Punjab, killing four officers and three civilians.