As security forces continue the sanitisation operations inside the Pathankot air base, the big question is should India continue with peace process with Pakistan? Islamabad's role in Pathankot terror strike has been laid bare. India has handed over ample evidence to the Nawaz Sharif government regarding his country's involvement in the brazen terror attack.

But will PM Sharif take any action on evidence provided by India? The combined inputs of India's intelligence agencies suggest that the Pakistan army is not fully on board with Nawaz Sharif's efforts to forge peace with India.

The Indian political establishment has been informed at the highest levels that the Pathankot attack has been carried out with the full knowledge of the Pakistan army chief General Raheel Sharif.

Almost every Pakistani news website has been carrying the news of Pathankot attack with some of them questioning India's preparedness and its counter-terror abilities.

An article titled - 'India scrambles to solve Pathankot riddle' - in Dawn noted that "the government scrambled to answer uncomfortable questions about how it all came this far."

"The main questions being asked were what did the intelligence agencies know 24 hours before the attack; what did the government do with the specific inputs; and if the intelligence agencies didn't get a firm grip on the facts, why not?" the report further added.

A separate article on Dawn's website said that the Pakistan "government is in touch with the Indian government and is working on the leads provided by it."

"Cooperation with India was in accordance with its commitment to effectively counter and eradicate terrorism," it quoted a statement issued by the Pakistan Foreign Office.

The article noted that the attack in Pathankot and the one on Indian consulate in Afghanistan may impact the upcoming Foreign Secretary-level talks between the two neighbouring nations.

"The fate of the meeting is getting increasingly unclear. The dialogue was in trouble after the Pathankot attack, but the terrorist strike near Indian consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif (Afghanistan) made the prospects look even further bleak," it said.

'India airbase attack threatens Pakistan talks' - the lead story's headline on Nation.com.pk read.

"The Pakistan-India relationship is in a tailspin, what with Modi's landing in Lahore and now the gun battle at Pathankot. The attack will cement the official India position: that it will not talk about another issue until that of terrorism is sorted- Pathankot is another case in point," an opinion piece titled - Two Steps Back - on The Nation said.

"India is mulling its options on whether to go ahead with foreign secretary-level talks with Pakistan scheduled for later this month after militants attacked an Indian Air Force (IAF) base over the weekend," said an article on Daily Times.

Rustam Shah Mohmand, who has served as Pakistan's Ambassador to Afghanistan, in his opinion piece - Attack in Pathankot: Another derailment of relations? - in The Express Tribune said," The long journey to peace and normalisation of relations between India and Pakistan has been incredibly complex and painful.

"In the aftermath of the attack, if Indian authorities come to the conclusion after ascertaining facts that all or some its perpetrators had come from Pakistan or that they had been trained in Pakistan, bilateral relations would receive an irretrievable setback. Distrust would mount and suspicions would deepen," Mohmand highlighted.

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