Sunday marks the 19th year of the horrendous attack on the Indian Parliament that was carried out by terrorist groups linked to Pakistan. 

A
five-member suicide squad of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad attacked the
Indian Parliament building on this day in 2001 during an ongoing the Lok Sabha’s session, which was soon stopped but several MPs and
parliament staff were stuck inside.

The terrorists arrived in an Ambassador car and entered the building by forging their
identity after showing a fake government sticker on their car. However, during their entry, one of the staff members sensed something weird and they were forced to
return but during the course of returning their vehicle hit the car of then vice
president Krishan Kant.

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The
terrorists carried AK-47S and grenades from which they started firing all
around and. The gunbattle lasted for around 30 minutes. However, all five
terrorists were killed soon after the attack but five security personnel of
Delhi Police, on woman constable of CRPF and two security assistants of
Parliament Watch and Ward section were also killed in order to stop the terrorists
from entering the building.

Advani also
said that both the terrorist group organisations were supported and patronaged
from Pakistan ISI.

Later, four
masterminds of the attack were arrested. Mohammad Afzal Guru, Shaukat Hussain,
Afsan Guru and SAR Geelani were the faces of this deadly attack. Geelani, a professor
of Delhi University, and Afsan Guru were acquitted for not having any evidence,
Hussain was put in jail and Afzal Guru was hanged in 2013.