Chandigarh: A maximum alert was sounded and security strengthened across Punjab on Saturday in the wake of the attack on an Air Force Base in Pathankot by suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists.

Officials said that in view of the attack, which comes after the terror strike in July last in Dina Nagar town in adjoining Gurdaspur district, security had been beefed up across the state and along its borders with neighbouring Jammu and Kashmir.