The operation against terrorists holed up at the air base entered the third day today after explosions and firing continued intermittently overnight.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today presided over a high-level meeting to discuss the ongoing operation at Pathankot air base to flush out holed up terrorists and the attack on Indian consulate in Afghanistan.
Top security officials, including National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, are learnt to have briefed PM Modi on the ongoing operation in Pathankot as well as the terror strike at the Indian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif yesterday.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, both members of the Cabinet Committee on Security, were also present at the meeting.
Soon after returning from his two-day visit to Karnataka, PM Modi had chaired a
similar meeting last night of top officials, including Mr Doval and Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar.
The operation against terrorists holed up at the air base
entered the third day today after explosions and firing continued intermittently overnight. All six terrorists have now been killed.
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 National Security Guard (NSG).
Four terrorists were eliminated on Saturday when they had struck at the air base.