Parlaiment panel to visit Pathankot

January 28, 2016 22:46

A Parliamentary panel has decided to visit Pathankot, where terrorists attacked an air force base on January 2 leaving seven security personnel and six militants dead.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs chaired by Congress MP from Rajya Sabha P Bhattacharya has planned to visit the Indo-Pak border areas in Rajasthan and Punjab, and Pathankot will be part of the itinerary, sources said.

On January 2, 2016, a heavily armed group, suspected to belong to terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed, attacked the Pathankot Air Force Station, part of the Western Air Command of the IAF.

The other site, which the committee members plan to visit in Punjab is Gurdaspur, where three terrorists, believed to be of Lashkar-e-Tayiba terror group, had sneaked in from Ravi river along the border in Punjab on the intervening night of July 26 and 27 and attacked a police station in Dina Nagar.

Seven people including a Superintendent of Police were killed by the terrorists before they were neutralised by Punjab Police.

The visit is likely to happen in the second week of February, the sources said.

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