Pathankot: The National Security Agency (NSA) has alerted the Pathankot Air Force station about a possible aerial attack by Pakistan-based terror outfits through micro-light aircraft, including gliders, and para-motors.
The authorities here have distributed posters warning residents about these aerial vehicles.
Sources claim that the authorities have gone on overdrive warning residents of ‘aerial offensives’ after the NSA sent alerts claiming that Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed may be planning these attacks.
The air base was declared a sensitive zone after the January 2 attack in which four militants and seven security personnel were killed.
On July 27 last year, three terrorists had laid siege to the police station in the border town of Dinanagar, 25 km from here, before they were gunned down in a 12-hour-long battle.
Sources claim that these aerial vehicles can be used for surveying sensitive areas and also to launch an offensive.
Scores of posters have been distributed in recent days in localities falling on the periphery of the air base. These posters contain pictures of gliders and have the telephone numbers of officials who can be contacted in case of an aerial threat.
29/06/16 Ravi Dhaliwal/Tribune
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The authorities here have distributed posters warning residents about these aerial vehicles.
Sources claim that the authorities have gone on overdrive warning residents of ‘aerial offensives’ after the NSA sent alerts claiming that Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed may be planning these attacks.
The air base was declared a sensitive zone after the January 2 attack in which four militants and seven security personnel were killed.
On July 27 last year, three terrorists had laid siege to the police station in the border town of Dinanagar, 25 km from here, before they were gunned down in a 12-hour-long battle.
Sources claim that these aerial vehicles can be used for surveying sensitive areas and also to launch an offensive.
Scores of posters have been distributed in recent days in localities falling on the periphery of the air base. These posters contain pictures of gliders and have the telephone numbers of officials who can be contacted in case of an aerial threat.
29/06/16 Ravi Dhaliwal/Tribune
