By- Srushti sharma
Wednesday, December 13, marks 22 years to the 2001 attack on Parliament by terrorist
They arrived in a car fitted with forged Home Ministry sticker on its windshield.
Upon suspicion, the car was forced to turn back, following which the terrorists got down and opened fire.
This raised an alarm and all building gates were closed. At the time, over 100 ministers and/or MPs were present inside the Parliament.
The firing lasted for over 30 minutes, leaving five terrorists, eight security personnel and a gardener dead, and 15 injured.
L K Advani, the then Home Minister, stated the attack was executed jointly by Pakistan-based terrorist outfits — Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad.
All five terrorists who formed the suicide squad were Pakistani nationals… Their Indian associated have since been nabbed and arrested.
Advani referred to the attack as the “most audacious, and also the most alarming act of terrorism in the nearly two-decades-long history of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in India.”
The Delhi Police arrested Mohammad Afzal Guru, a former Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front militant who had surrendered in 1994