Pathankot: Search ops to continue as 5th terrorist killed

Security personnel were searching Punjab’s Pathankot air force base on Monday after killing a fifth attacker in a counter-terror offensive that began last week, while India announced it would decide on foreign secretary-level talks with Pakistan slated for January 15 only after the operation is over. All civilians in the airbase are secure,” said Major General Dushyant Singh, inspector general of the National Security Guards. The Prime Minister chaired a high-level meeting in the Capital to discuss the Pathankot counter-terror operation during which seven Indian soldiers died and an attack on the Indian consulate at Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan. Asked why it was taking so long to neutralise the terrorists, Major General Dushyant Singh told reporters that the operation would not end until all assets and the entire airbase had been secured.