New Delhi: According to a report the terror strike on Pathankot’s Air Force base was jointly planned by Jaish-e-Mohammad and Pakistan’s intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Sources said that some senior ISI men met top leaders of banned terror groups Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Hizbul Mujahideen in December 2015 and planned to carry out terror strike.
On January 2, heavily-armed Pakistani terrorists attempted to storm the Air Force base in Pathankot. This led to a day-long gunbattle in which three securitymen and four infiltrators were killed.
The terrorists were believed to have infiltrated from Pakistan and there was speculation that they may belong to Jaish-e-Mohammad headed Maulana Masood Azhar of the Kandahar hijack episode.
The attack happened days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise stopover in Lahore.
