Pathankot airbase terror attack News
Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju said that a lot of lessons need to be learnt from the Pathankot airbase terror attack in January this year.
India approached the UN in February to include Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar in the UN Security Council's 1267 sanctions list.
The investigation into the Pathankot terror attack was not a question of 'reciprocity' but that of 'cooperation', Basit had said.
The report said the Pakistani nationals provided the information after the NIA uploaded the photos of four Pathankot terrorists on its website in March.
It has been further revealed that the conspiracy to kill the NIA officer was hatched in his village Sahaspur, in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh.
The terrorists are likely to cross the Banihal Tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir later tonight.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj held bilateral talks with her Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz in Nepal's Pokhara on Thursday.
According to a report, the minister asked this while responding to Scindia's query during a debate.
Pakistan has set up a five-member Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe the Pathankot airbase terror attack , a week after it lodged an FIR into the incident.
This was a second such meeting between the NSAs of the two countries after they held talks in secret in Bangkok on December 6.
India and Pakistan may hold Foreign Secretary-level talks in the near future as against speculation of return of chill in bilateral ties.
Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Tuesday took a dig at the "gullible" Indian media for lapping up the story of Jaish-e-Mohammad leader Maulana Masood Azhar's arrest by Pakistan.
Pakistan has said it is clamping down on Azhar`s group, which India has long accused Pakistani authorities of tolerating.
The investigation so far has found that illegal entry was being allowed into the Pathankot airbase for a meagre sum of Rs 50.
On Monday morning, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval found himself in a difficult position.
The terrorists are believed to have entered the airbase by climbing an 11-foot-high wall.
'Operation Dhangu' was the codename given to the mission to eliminate the terrorists from the Pathankot airbase after heavily-armed Pakistani terrorists stormed the Air Force base, triggering a fiece gunbattle in which 7 security men were martyred and all the 6 infiltrators were gunned down.
There is a twist in speculations about Pathankot terror attack.
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