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Attack on PNS Mehran Base - PAF Faisal Base

No body noticed (sorry if someone did ... but i didn't read all the pages)...that the attack came just after Prime Minister asked China build a naval base at gawadar.... I think this was the trailer for china that if they build base in pakistan, there would be attacks on it as well !!!
 
Interesting part of stupid Admiral of Pak navy...while during his press conference he keeps on repeating how well trained terrorist were....an angry reporter stood up and ask when you going to send your soldier to terrorist to get better training ....
This Admiral need to be fired right away...not accepting his responsibility.
According to report 1100 registered guard suppose to be on duty on PNS Mehran. When attack start only Navel guard and LT Yasir were their to stop the attack...................what a shame, literally no security.
 
Why are we fighting them in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Peshawar and Karachi, lets take the fight to them, evacuate the NWA,SWA one final time, let women, elderly and children out and the level the place. Its time to clean the swamp. If we still need to keep some snakes, lets remove their venom for now and put them in cages.
 
Interesting part of stupid Admiral of Pak navy...while during his press conference he keeps on repeating how well trained terrorist were....an angry reporter stood up and ask when you going to send your soldier to terrorist to get better training ....
This Admiral need to be fired right away...not accepting his responsibility.
According to report 1100 registered guard suppose to be on duty on PNS Mehran. When attack start only Navel guard and LT Yasir were their to stop the attack...................what a shame, literally no security.

both mr admiral and lnterior minister made weird comments in their press conferences.
 
Interesting part of stupid Admiral of Pak navy...while during his press conference he keeps on repeating how well trained terrorist were....an angry reporter stood up and ask when you going to send your soldier to terrorist to get better training ....
This Admiral need to be fired right away...not accepting his responsibility.
According to report 1100 registered guard suppose to be on duty on PNS Mehran. When attack start only Navel guard and LT Yasir were their to stop the attack...................what a shame, literally no security.

Typical american pakistani always critical about his native country. Indian americans are same, cynical and critical of everything in their native country.

There is nothing wrong in what Pak-Navy Admiral said. He just said that terrorists were well trained. What he seems to suggest is, probably terrorists have attended some official armed course/training and are not random goons who lack such sophisticated training. The stupid reporter obviously hasn't taken basic training in journalism and missed his point. Or, maybe that reporter came there to watch some movie type response with lot of unrealistic blabbering and tall claims like american army spokesman do.

Indian media is same. Full of idiots.
 
Shame!!

Admirl Nouman Bashir said in press

"Terrorist are very well trained and very well equiped" Damn someone asking him idiot when u will send Pakistan Navy commando - to - terrorist because terrorist will train our soldiers as well because by your logic they are well trained ???" slap by journalist yesturday to Nauman Bashir!

What a full bunch of Idiots sitting in Army Navy aur Airforce ....

No resignation no court marshal nothing in GHQ attack (Army)
No resignation no court marshal nothing in OBL Raid (Airforce)
No resignation no court marshal nothing in PNS Mehran Base attach (Navy)

and more thn 150 other attacks on ISI, FIA and other security locations...


MILITARY Bohat sar pe char gaye hey in ke *** inko batana parayge kay tum ghar kay rakwalay ho THATS IT NOTHING ELSE MORE!
 
Shame!!

Admirl Nouman Bashir said in press

"Terrorist are very well trained and very well equiped" Damn someone asking him idiot when u will send Pakistan Navy commando - to - terrorist because terrorist will train our soldiers as well because by your logic they are well trained ???" slap by journalist yesturday to Nauman Bashir!

What a full bunch of Idiots sitting in Army Navy aur Airforce ....

No resignation no court marshal nothing in GHQ attack (Army)
No resignation no court marshal nothing in OBL Raid (Airforce)
No resignation no court marshal nothing in PNS Mehran Base attach (Navy)

and more thn 150 other attacks on ISI, FIA and other security locations...


MILITARY Bohat sar pe char gaye hey in ke *** inko batana parayge kay tum ghar kay rakwalay ho THATS IT NOTHING ELSE MORE!

So, what wrong Admiral said? Should he speak lies now to appease moron journalists?
 
US and India. India is too impotent to do anything on its own. It always will be.

Few untrained, uneducated Talibans can royally screw your so called "protected" area. Imagine what would have happened if India or US wanted to indulge or support these terrorist activities within Pakistan. Please try to be practical and stop the blame game.
 

Some really good points.
 
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No body noticed (sorry if someone did ... but i didn't read all the pages)...that the attack came just after Prime Minister asked China build a naval base at gawadar.... I think this was the trailer for china that if they build base in pakistan, there would be attacks on it as well !!!

exactly, and look at the press release by america. its clearly a warning...
 
PNS Mehran: It’s A War On Pakistan, Why Military Leadership Is Quiet?

Posted by Shireen M. Mazari on May 23rd, 2011


For Pakistan, the writing on the wall is clear. We are in a two-front war: One directly with the US and the other an unconventional war where nonstate actors are being trained by powerful external powers to undermine the military and intelligence organizations from within for the final external assault. But our civil and military leadership seems oblivious to these increasingly overt signals.


SHIREEN M. MAZARI | Monday | 23 May 2011 | EXCLUSIVE
PakNationalists.com | Home Of Pakistani Nationalists Online | A Meeting Point Of Pakistani Nationalists


ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—That Pakistan is facing a two-front war since 9/11 should have been apparent to at least the intelligence and military leadership. After all, the evidence was there from the moment General Musharraf surrendered the country to the Unites States.

There was the publication of the article by a retired US military intelligence officer Ralph Peters in the US Armed Forces Journal titled Blood Borders which envisaged the partitioning of Pakistan and Iran. There was the commencement of US demands to ‘do more’ on the Pakistani state, especially its military, and there was the ‘invasion’ of hordes of American private security contractors and special operatives–most without going through the proper visa clearance process, especially after the coming to power of the Zardari-Gilani combine courtesy the NRO brokered by the US and Pakistan’s military leadership.

Unfortunately, the Pakistani state, especially its military and intelligence leadership miscalculated gravely when they fell in the US trap of a military-centric approach to dealing with terrorism and extremism. The results have been disastrous for the Pakistani state and nation. The US effectively, under international law, declared war on Pakistan’s people with the drone attacks, and the military and intelligence set up neglected to calculate the costs of the US short-term lures of tactical weapons and a few downgraded F-16s. Apart from other fallouts, Pakistan suddenly found itself the victim of suicide bombings, internally displaced people and the Pakistani Taliban whose increasing funding and sophisticated arms should have raised alarm bells.

Additionally the economic costs have now also run into billions and we are today facing a war ravaged nation deeply polarized and totally unable to feel secure in their own territory despite a huge military and intelligence network.

The attack on Mehran Base in Karachi has made it clear that the policy of destroying Pakistan’s military and intelligence set up is being operationalised but the question for us Pakistanis is why our intelligence and military leadership is going along with this scheme of things – or at least why it is unable to develop a viable counter response to this policy.

Some of us had been pointing to the dangers of having US forces embedded within the Pakistan military far before the WikiLeaks made this public. That the May 2nd incident was a major security and intelligence lapse cannot be denied although the cover up has come in the form of the ‘stealth technology’ pretext. But how can one explain the complete CIA covert set up in Abbottabad?

The incident certainly created a disconnect between the military leadership and the younger officers and soldiers and the lack of accountability of the former has done little to restore this equilibrium. As if to ensure that such an eventuality does not come to pass the attack on the Mehran base has taken place. To suggest that it was not a security and intelligence failure is to hide one’s head in the sand. Yes, as usual our soldiers fought bravely and many were martyred but why should they have been exposed to this danger in the first place? It is time some responsibility was accepted and the leadership made accountable.

How long will we continue to place our soldiers and young officers in these lethal situations created by leadership lapses?

What is equally disturbing is to discover that four to six terrorists held the whole base hostage for over sixteen hours and at the end of the operation it was given out that two terrorists may have escaped while four were killed. In comparison eleven of our soldiers were martyred, including our commandos. The terrorists were trained and carrying sophisticated weapons including RPGs. Who has been training these people and where are the money and arms coming from? If they are the Pakistani Taliban, who is behind them? Why did the government not make public the weapons’ makes and origins?

A larger question is how the details of the base and the location of the targets reached the attackers? These terrorists were not targeting the base in a random fashion. They knew where to go to get to their target: the P-3C Orion surveillance planes especially suited for anti-submarine warfare.

Linked to this is the question of why target these planes? Who would benefit from their destruction? The non-state terrorist actors are supposed to be located within Pakistan and Afghanistan; but it is the US and India which could target Pakistan by sea – and both have been threatening to attack Pakistan post-May 2. The US has its bases in Oman and Bahrain while India has a vast blue water navy.

The question that arises then is whether this was a probe attack to check out our defenses?

Just as the May 2 incident exposed our faulty intelligence and military preparedness, this incident has done the same on yet another front. That a few well-trained terrorists can hold up a whole naval base despite inputs from the Rangers and the Army does not bode well for Pakistan’s military preparedness.

The writing on the wall is clear for Pakistan. It is in a two-front war: One directly with the US and the other an unconventional war where nonstate actors are being trained by powerful external powers to undermine the military and intelligence organizations from within for the final external assault. But our civil and military leadership seems oblivious to these increasingly overt signals. Or are they totally mesmerized by US lures?

Our nuclear assets are not under threat militarily for reasons I have already explained at length in an earlier write up. But a security and military environment is being created where a diplomatic and political campaign to take control of the nuclear assets can reach fruition. This is a well thought out strategy that the US has been operationalizing since 9/11 when it gained military and intelligence access into Pakistan and saw how easy it was to seduce the Pakistani military and subsequently the civilian leadership.

While not denying the extremist militancy and terrorism within Pakistan, we need to realize that the targeting of military installations and intelligence vulnerabilities is the handiwork of trained and well-armed operatives who of necessity have strong external backers. Of course we need to counter the extremist threat but to let this bogey blind us to the two-front war being waged against our very existence as a nation and state post-9/11would be to play right into the hands of our very real, very skilled and very powerful external enemies.

Unfortunately, that is what our civil and military leadership is falling prey to so far. In the process the critical cohesiveness and morale of our military and intelligence institutions, the strongest institutions in the country, is being threatened. It is time to arrest this leadership decay through accountability of those responsible. We have already lost over 35 000 Pakistani lives. How many more martyrs can we afford as a result of fatal leadership lapses?

Dr. Mazari is an adviser on defense policy to a political party and the former director of Islamabad Institute For Strategic Studies. She wrote this comment for PakNationalists.com Reach her at callstr[at]hotmail.com
 

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