Close X
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
ADVT 
India

PM Modi Lauds Brave Forces For Pathankot Attack Response

Darpan News Desk IANS, 09 Jan, 2016 01:37 PM
    Giving a clean chit to the security forces for their handling of the counter-offensive against the terrorist attack on the Pathankot IAF base, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who flew in here on Saturday just a week after the attack, said he was satisfied with the "decision-making and its execution".
     
    "Noted with satisfaction the decision-making & its execution, the considerations that went into our tactical response," Modi tweeted through his PMO India Twitter handle.
     
    The prime minister, who arrived here on Saturday morning, was briefed by senior defence and security officers about the terrorist attack carried out by suspected Pakistani terrorists on the Pathankot Air Force Station (AFS).
     
    The prime minister was taken around the air base by defence and security officers.
     
    Since the base is a frontline and sensitive one, no live telecast of the visit was allowed. The media was kept away from the air base.
     
    Modi's visit came just a day after security agencies gave an all-clear to the entire air base and said it was completely sanitised.
     
    The operation against the terrorists had lasted for nearly 95 hours and the end of the combat part was announced on Tuesday evening. Combing of the entire base ended on Friday.
     
    Soon after landing at the air base, targetted exactly a week ago in a pre-dawn attack, Modi met senior officers of the Indian Air Force (IAF), army and National Security Guard (NSG).
     
     
    Modi was accompanied by National Security Adviser Ajit Doval. Indian Army chief General Dalbir Singh, and IAF chief Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha were also present at the air base during the visit.
     
    "Visited Pathankot air base today. Had a detailed briefing from senior leadership of Army, Air Force, NSG & BSF," Modi tweeted.
     
    "Was briefed in great detail on how our forces neutralised such a serious terrorist attack," he said.
     
    "Also noted coordination among various field units. Lauded bravery & determination of our men & women on the ground. They are our pride," he added.
     
    Modi was taken for an aerial survey of Punjab's border belt with Pakistan in an IAF helicopter.
     
    He was briefed about the barbed wire fencing along the border and the need to strengthen the border belt with better and complete fencing and more ground troops to prevent infiltration by terrorists in future, army sources said.
     
    Tight security arrangements were in place for the prime minister's visit. No one was allowed to enter the area near the Air Force Station (AFS), located 250 km from Chandigarh.
     
     
    Six terrorists and seven security personnel were killed in the attack.
     
    Security forces repulsed the attack and the terrorists were unable to harm any of the IAF's critical assets, including fighter aircraft and attack helicopters.

    MORE India ARTICLES

    Nirbahaya's Gang-Rape 'Juvenile' Convict To Be Freed, Victim's Parents Dismayed

    Nirbahaya's Gang-Rape 'Juvenile' Convict To Be Freed, Victim's Parents Dismayed
    The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) said it will challenge the release by writing to President Pranab Mukherjee, and the chief justices of the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court.

    Nirbahaya's Gang-Rape 'Juvenile' Convict To Be Freed, Victim's Parents Dismayed

    'India Is Building A Secret N-City In Karnataka'

    'India Is Building A Secret N-City In Karnataka'
    India could "deeply unsettle" its neighbours Pakistan and China as it is building a secret facility in its southern Karnataka state to augment its nuclear power for civilian use and upgradation of its weapons, a foreign policy journal has reported.

    'India Is Building A Secret N-City In Karnataka'

    AAP-BJP War Rages On, Jaitley Terms Charges 'Untruth'

    AAP-BJP War Rages On, Jaitley Terms Charges 'Untruth'
    Continuing its attack on Jaitley over alleged corruption when he headed Delhi's cricket association, Kejriwal said Jaitley must resign or should be sacked. The BJP and the central government rejected the demand.

    AAP-BJP War Rages On, Jaitley Terms Charges 'Untruth'

    India 97th On Forbes Best Countries For Business List

    India 97th On Forbes Best Countries For Business List
    India has been ranked 97th, three notches below China, in Forbes annual ranking of the best countries for business with Denmark topping the list for the sixth time in ten years.

    India 97th On Forbes Best Countries For Business List

    For Goa, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu Is A Real 'Prabhu'!

    For Goa, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu Is A Real 'Prabhu'!
    "Suresh Prabhu has given a lot to Goa over the last few months. We just say, 'Hay Prabhu (O lord) please bless us with these things'. 

    For Goa, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu Is A Real 'Prabhu'!

    From Internet.org To Drones, India Enters New Technology Era

    From Internet.org To Drones, India Enters New Technology Era
      "It is central to our plans of connecting the next billion people and then the whole world," Zuckerberg said during the townhall meeting held at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi in October during his maiden visit to India.

    From Internet.org To Drones, India Enters New Technology Era