Foreign Office statement stated that Pakistan condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.

Pakistan issued a statement strongly condemning the assault and extending condolences to the government and people of India, pushing back against insinuations that the assailants had crossed from Pakistani territory.

Three armed militants rampaged through a town in northern India on Monday, opening fire on a restaurant, cars and a health center and killing at least six people before being gunned down by Indian forces in an hours-long shootout, officials said.

Police overcame a group of gunmen dressed in military fatigues on Monday after a 12-hour battle that ended in a small-town police station near the border with Pakistan, and at least nine people were killed.

The attack, the first major terror strike in the state in eight years, is suspected to have been carried out by terrorists from either the Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) or Jaishe-Mohammad (JeM).

Chugh saluted the courageous officers of Punjab Police, Army Jawans and commandos who worked as a team to neutralise the infiltrators.

Insurgents frequently target police in the volatile Kashmir region, which is divided between arch rivals India and Pakistan and claimed in full by both.

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal placed the blame for the assault squarely on the BJP-led federal government’s shoulders.

Security at Pakistan-India border was put on tightened after the terror incident on the Indian home Minister Rajnath Singh.

Meanwhile, state-run All India Radio said that police discovered five bombs on a railway track in the area, causing train services to be suspended.

“They killed one person at the bus stand in the morning and then came to the police station“.

The group of about five attack ers came in a white Maruti-Suzuki vehicle, dressed in army uniforms, said Harcharan Bains, an adviser to Punjab’s chief minister.

“We need to tell them that there is always a limit to our tolerance and patience and we cannot take it anymore”, he said while seeking strong action so that these attacks are not repeated in future.

But neighbouring Punjab, a majority-Sikh state, has largely been spared the violence that has plagued Indian Kashmir.

The police station at Dinanagar is near Punjab’s border with neighboring Jammu and Kashmir state, and the global border with Pakistan, about 480 kilometers northwest of New Delhi.