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India: Govt. official say hiding gunmen may attack Pathankot airbase

By Sikh Siyasat Bureau

June 21, 2016

New Delhi: As per media reports,the Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) on Home Affairs said on Tuesday said that armed person are hiding in villages close to the “vulnerable” Pathankot airbase, which can come under fresh attack from them.

According to a report in Huffington Post, the PSC said the government has been informed about it and security of the strategically important facility beefed up.

The committee was in Jammu to review the security arrangements along the international border and had earlier gone to Pathankot.

“After going back from Pathankot, we made our suggestions to the government and said that there can be further attack on Pathankot… We were told by the villagers that some [persons] were still hiding in the villages there,” Chairman of the committee P Bhattacharya reportedly told reporters today.