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Day after Sharif’s promise, Minister seeks proof for attack
Asserting that the Indian leadership has not levelled any allegation on Pakistan regarding the Pathankot airbase terror attack, Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said terrorists won’t succeed in their nefarious designs.
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Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif has said that “some elements” want to “sabotage” the Indo-Pak peace talks through terror acts but they will not succeed in their nefarious designs. “Some elements want to sabotage the talks process between the two neighbouring countries through such terror acts but they would not succeed in their nefarious designs,” he said.
Asif said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in a telephonic contact have agreed that a cordial relationship was the most appropriate response to the terrorists, Radio Pakistan reported on Wednesday. To a question, he said that Pakistan itself was a victim of terrorism and fighting a successful war against the menace.
Heavily-armed terrorists last week attempted to storm the Air Force base in Pathankot. The attackers were believed to have infiltrated from Pakistan and there was speculation that they may belong to Jaish-e-Mohammad headed by Maulana Masood Azhar of the Kandahar hijack episode.
Terrorists nullified and how
Braving firing and intermittent shooting of mortars by terrorists, National Security Guard (NSG) aided by Garuds and the Army conducted a chain of surgical ‘step-by step’ operations to eliminate the six militants and ensured they were contained within a 250-meter radius.
An officer privy to the operation said it was a difficult task as on the one hand they had to secure families, air assets, buildings and on the other to contain terrorists in a specific area and neutralise them.
In the “well-coordinated operation” troops managed to secure all air assets and 3000 families housed in the over 1900-acre air base. “The NSG aided by the Garuds, special forces of IAF, Army conducted step-by-step surgical operational at specific places with some fire power of army to conclude the engagement with terrorists in over 38 hours in the 5-day long operation”, a senior officer said.
Will Pakistan repeat rhetoric?
Though India has given several evidences proving Pakistani connections, Islamabad’s response has always been tepid. Now in Pathankot attack too, lots of proof have been provided, this time the world wants deeds from Pakistan and not words, when India has relented move towards talks for peace in the region. Will there be serious action. Here is a peep into the responses of the neighbour in past terror attacks
July 2015: Three Pakistan terrorists stormed into Dina Nagar police station and killed seven persons, including an SP, before being gunned down after a 12-hour firefight.
India: GPS sets recovered from the slain terrorists were first fed with data on July 21 at Sargodha, a town 94 km from Faisalabad.
Pakistan: Categorically rejected the allegations as baseless and said Delhi has a tendency to cast blame on Pakistan for any terrorist incident in India”.
August 2015: Two BSF personnel killed in attack by Pakistani terrorist, who was later arrested and identified as Usman Khan, on a bus in Udhampur.
Pakistan: Cited National Database and Registration Authority record and said Indian allegation of Usman Khan from Pakistan was baseless.
26/11 Mumbai attacks in 2008:
India: India gives proof that attacks were planned and directed by Lashkar-e-Taiba militants in Pakistan.
Pakistan: In February 2009, though a former top cop admitted in a newspaper article that Kasab was a Pakistani national, the then president Asif Ali Zardari, then prime minister Syed Raza Gilani defended Pakistan and said that their country was also a victim of terror.
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