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Joint statement issued after visit vows action against Pak-based LeT, JeM and D-Company Current Affairs   : India and the US today vowed to strengthen cooperation against terror outfits like Jaish-e- Mohammad, Lashkar-e-Taiba and D-Company, while urging Pakistan to ensure that its soil is not used for terror strikes against other nations. In a joint statement released after talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump, the two nations also called on Islamabad to "expeditiously bring to justice the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai, Pathankot, and other cross-border terrorist attacks perpetrated by Pakistan- based groups." Briefing reporters on the meeting, Foreign Secretary, S Jaishankar said counter-terrorism was a major issue that was discussed between Trump and   Modi Trump Meet   during the day. ALSO READ:   In meet with Trump, Modi vows to destroy terror hideouts, tackle extremism On the reference to Pakistan, he...

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today said India has given fresh leads relating to the Pathankot terror attack and Pakistan is verifying the facts to bring the perpetrators to justice. “I have received fresh leads from India on the Pathankot attack and we will look and examine those evidences given by India. We could have hidden it or forgotten it but we asserted that we have received the evidences,” Sharif said on a day when US President Barack Obama termed the Pathankot terror strike as “another example of the inexcusable terrorism that India has endured for too long”. “Pakistan has an opportunity to show that it is serious about delegitimising, disrupting and dismantling terror networks,” Obama said in an interview.  Read Full Article Over Here :  Business Standard News  

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today 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”, remarks which come in the backdrop of the Pathankot terror attack.  Read Articles  

Nearly 200 former army personnel paid homage to the martyrs of the Pathankot terror attack at India Gate here today and called for formulation of a National Security Policy and reorganisation of the Ministry of Defence.  ALSO READ: Security beefed up in Mathura in the wake of Pathankot attack The war veterans placed a wreath at the India Gate as a mark of respect to the seven defence personnel, including one Lt Col of the NSG, who were killed in the the attack.  Read More

The operation against militants holed up at  Pathankot  air base entered the third day today after explosions and firing continued intermittently overnight. Security forces had yesterday killed one of the at least two terrorists on the second day of the attack in which seven security personnel lost their lives including a Lieutenant Colonel of the NSG. Four terrorists were eliminated on Saturday when they had struck at the air base. ALSO READ:  PM chairs high-level meeting on Pathankot terror attack The operation stretched through the night with sounds of gunfire and explosions continuing till around 10 a.m today after which they have ceased. Attack helicopters were still flying over the area. More quick response teams have been rushed to the site. ALSO READ:  Pathankot attack: There was no lapse, says govt Defence sources had last night said that one more terrorist was killed while another was injured. The holed up militants were discovered in the ...

Suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists from Pakistan today attacked an Air Force base here, killing two air personnel while four terrorists were killed in an operation that lasted more than five hours, an attack that comes just a week after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an unscheduled visit to Lahore.  The air base is located near the border with Pakistan.  “The gunbattle between terrorists and security forces ended after more than five hours,” Punjab Police ADGP (Law and Order) H S Dhillon.  “However, the area was not sanitised yet and the combing operation continues,” he said.  At least four to five militants, believed to be from the  Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist group , in army uniform launched the attack at 3:30 a.m with an aim of destroying the air base, a top security official said. Security forces are on the look out for  a possible fifth terrorist so that no collateral damage is done, police said.  The terrorists, with huge q...