New Delhi: Following the fierce gunbattle in Gurdaspur police station which left 10 dead, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has called off his meeting with Pakistani High Commissioner Abdul Basit. The meeting was scheduled to take place on Wednesday.
A group of heavily armed terrorists had launched a suicide attack at a police station in Dinanagar in Gurdaspur district of Punjab on Monday.
Sources say that Pakistan's involvement in the attacks has not been ruled out with the global positioning system (GPS) sets recovered from the three killed terrorists pointing to a Pakistan link.
Sources in intelligence agencies and Punjab Police said here on Tuesday that the track of the GPS sets revealed that the terrorists had moved from Shakargarh area in Pakistan along the India-Pakistan border on Sunday and entered India.
"The terrorists used the route of rivulets along the border belt and reached Bamiyal town. While observing that security in the Jammu region, which is very close, was tight, the terrorists moved towards Dinanagar town," a police official said on condition of anonymity.
Forensic experts from Chandigarh have arrived at the police station complex here to search for clues about the identity of the three terrorists who besieged the complex for over 11 hours on Monday.
The forensic team was examining the building where the terrorists were holed up. The car, which was hijacked by the terrorists and on which they came to the police station complex, was also being examined.
Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Sumedh Singh Saini said that the terrorists were carrying AK-47 automatic weapons and Chinese-made hand grenades.
"We are examining clues from their clothes and other things that they were carrying," a forensic team official said.
Seven people, including a senior police officer, three home guard personnel and three civilians, were killed in the terror attack.
Dinanagar town, which is just 12 km from the India-Pakistan border, is located 25 km from the Jammu and Kashmir border and 235 km from Chandigarh.
Sources in the Ministry of External affairs have also said that there is a shadow of doubt over whether or not NSA level talks between the two nations will go ahead as planned. The MEA is taking stock of the situation and the decision will depend on information stating whether the ISI had a role in the attacks.
The Home Minister is expected to issue a statement outlining the government's line and next course of action.
With inputs from IANS
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