Attack on PAF Base Minhas

[Imran Khan]

i am suspecting its same group of dogs which attack on army at Gujarat camp and Lahore police residence last month .

 

[Mani2020]

Mate you're still so indifferent to what is happening, how the society has become so polarized?

Get out of Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad or wherever you're living. Travel the length and breadth of Pakistan. Observe with your own eyes what habibi "Sunnah" has brought upon Pakistan!

What would you prefer: Why not just hand-over the whole of Pakistan, rather fight these "Sunnah" freaks, AKA the Sunnis, AKA the all mighty religious nut jobs, who consider Pakistan their personal property.

If you want harsh examples, I will oblige, however, I rather not on such an open forum. What say you?

Why to generalize? there may be talibs with beards and such looks but there are people too with same looks but so humble, patriotic and true believers. Your looks doesnot determine your character . Because of few ugly talibans why to generalize everyone who is following sunnat and islam by true means . Evil and good is everywhere

You are saying if the people without beard and such looks doesnot commit criminal acts.... Americans dont have beards doesnot they commit crimes and kill innocents? most jews are without beards so how can you justify their looks? if a group of shaved jews with spikes is found guilty of war crimes and terrorist activities will you ban such looks? or start calling everyone with such look as a terrorist or a person with bad conduct? If this is the way then such looks will also be banned as what jews are doing against palestinians is nothing less than a terrorism

we have seen in the past taliban terrorists without beards and such hairs so what about them?Your looks doesnot bound you character ...

 

[Raja.Pakistani]

guys please stop this irrelevant discussion in this thread..share any news/comment/videos on this incident instead of taking about beard

 

[Hyperion]

i am suspecting its same group of dogs which attack on army at Gujarat camp and Lahore police residence last month .

Yara Imran, there is this BIG ELEPHANT sitting smack in the middle of the room, and people are debating: Well, they must be from this group, they might be from that group. Look at his color, look at his height, look at his ID card.

WTF! There is no good religious nut-job. There is no good Tableeghi. There is not good Taliban. There is no good PML-N. STATE AND RELIGION can not be mixed. PERIOD.

we have seen in the past taliban terrorists without beards and such hairs so what about them?Your looks doesnot bound you character ...

Firstly, don't tell me about the FEW religious zealots. Do you want me to point you to the daily bloodshed, economic losses, insecurity caused by these FEW not-so-pious religious people?

Mate, obviously, while on a "human-bombing" mission they don't go with the whole tableeghi shebang. Do they?

 

[krash]

Mate you're still so indifferent to what is happening, how the society has become so polarized?

Get out of Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad or wherever you're living. Travel the length and breadth of Pakistan. Observe with your own eyes what habibi "Sunnah" has brought upon Pakistan!

What would you prefer: Why not just hand-over the whole of Pakistan, rather fight these "Sunnah" freaks, AKA the Sunnis, AKA the all mighty religious nut jobs, who consider Pakistan their personal property.

If you want harsh examples, I will oblige, however, I rather not on such an open forum. What say you?

Although this discussion is for another time and place but I would like to answer this particular post.

Mate its not the sunnah. The sunnah has been around for 1400 years. The sunnah is present in many other parts of the world. These retards however are a more recent and local phenomenon. It is time we accepted that the problem is within us. It is us, the people, who are retarded to the bone. Take away the Sunnah and we will find another sliver of a pickle to make war on. We fight on the basis of ethnicity, we fight on the bases of religion, we fight on the bases political parties, we fight on the bases of language, we twist, mutate and pervert religion where we can and when we cant we go "meh.....", we believe every concocted retarded statement by any moron not fit to be fed to my dogs, we destroy our own property to protest against the one who sits half way across the planet, we've been burning our wives long before islam or sunnah, we've been killing our daughters long before as well, we blame everyone around us but our selves. Iv seen men dressed in white garb with a foot long beard and a white tubin walk in class and teach math and computer sciences the way Iv never been taught before. So its not the sunnah it is us. We the sheep are at fault.

 

[Safriz]

The mystery remains which aircraft was damaged...
If as some reports say that one of the hangers was hit by RPG and shrapnel did hit a plane inside..
It wasn't a direct RPG hit to the plane but shrapnel damage....
Which plane was this? No confirmed reports yet....

 

[Hyperion]

Although this discussion is for another time and place but I would like to answer this particular post.

Mate its not the sunnah. The sunnah has been around for 1400 years. The sunnah is present in many other parts of the world. These retards however are a more recent and local phenomenon. It is time we accepted that the problem is within us. It is us, the people, who are retarded to the bone. Take away the Sunnah and we will find another sliver of a pickle to make war on. We fight on the basis of ethnicity, we fight on the bases of religion, we fight on the bases political parties, we fight on the bases of language, we twist, mutate and pervert religion where we can and when we cant we go "meh.....", we believe every concocted retarded statement by any moron not fit to be fed to my dogs, we destroy our own property to protest against the one who sits half way across the planet, we've been burning our wives long before islam or sunnah, we've been killing our daughters long before as well, we blame everyone around us but our selves. Iv seen men dressed in white garb with a foot long beard and a white tubin walk in class and teach math and computer sciences the way Iv never been taught before. So its not the sunnah it is us. We the sheep are at fault.

Well, we can respectfully agree to disagree with each other. What say you that we have the right to differing opinions?

 

[Xestan]

So much of off-topic discussion going on here, Indians with their joy aside, some liberal fascists will never leave any opportunity to malign the image of Islam. Anyways..

On topic: I spoke with someone in the Military, they are very clear about the operation, no aircraft has been damaged other than a IL-86MP, which too is nominally damaged. Our Erieyes are safe!

 

[Devil Soul]

Alert air force repels militant raid on key base
By Rashid Ali
Published: August 17, 2012
ATTOCK:
While militants were previously successful in storming an army installation (GHQ) and a Naval base (Mehran), which were both held hostage for a number of hours, the third and often-ignored branch of the military, the air force, effectively stymied a similar raid on its key base.
Nine heavily-armed militants attempted to infiltrate Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Minhas base, a vital installation located in Kamra, outside Attock. However, the audacious raid inflicted little physical damage compared to similar endeavours in the past few years.
The Pakistan Air Force said nine attackers, dressed in military fatigues and armed with rocket propelled-grenades and suicide vests, targeted the base and the adjacent Pakistan Aeronautical Complex at 2am, local time.
The militants moved through a nearby village, Pind Makhan, and climbed a
nine foot wall strung with barbed wire to break into the base, sources said. However, they were immediately engaged by a security personnel, deployed at a watchtower along the boundary wall, who informed his colleagues.
The militants, most of whom were strapped with suicide bomb vests, were unable to cross the inner security cordon. They were engaged in an operation that lasted about 20 minutes, sources in the PAF said. The attack left one air force security guard, sepoy Asif Ramzan dead, besides the nine militants, and an aircraft slightly damaged.
The pre-dawn assault, promptly claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP), came days after reports surfaced of Pakistan’s willingness to launch an operation in the restive and largely-untouched North Waziristan agency – known to be a hotbed of local and foreign militants.
The operation
“There was an announcement by megaphone for soldiers not to move from the barracks,” said an officer. Special forces and police scrambled to the scene.
Security forces opened fire when militants approached aircraft hangars, prompting other militants to fire rocket-propelled grenades from outside the base’s walls, said the air force spokesperson.
“Eight miscreants were killed inside the Minhas base boundary wall and one miscreant exploded himself outside the perimeters where he was hiding,” the air force said. It said there had been a shootout “for more than two hours” and 10 hours after the assault began, spokesperson Tariq Mahmood confirmed the base was “totally safe”.
About an hour later, a series of small explosions could be heard as improvised explosive devices planted on the base by the militants were successfully control-detonated by the military. Base commander Air Commodore Muhammad Azam, who led the operation against the attackers, was shot in the shoulder, but is in stable condition, said spokesman Captain Tariq Mahmood.
Responsibility
The Pakistani Taliban promptly claimed responsibility for the attack and said the planes at the base were being used to kill its fighters.
Spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan dedicated the attack to late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and claimed four Taliban fighters were killed after destroying three aircraft and killing a dozen soldiers.
“We are proud of this operation. Our leadership had decided to attack Kamra base a long time ago,” Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said by telephone from an undisclosed location.
Attack repelled
Despite the infiltration, the militants were able to inflict little damage at the key base. Sources said that was possibly because the base was already on red alert due to intelligence reports of imminent attack received earlier. Previous Taliban assaults on Pakistani military bases have exacted far higher casualty tolls. In May 2011, for instance, it took 17 hours to quell an attack on an air base in Karachi claimed by the Taliban. The complex, located halfway between Islamabad and Peshawar on the GT Road, assembles Mirage and, with Chinese assistance, JF-17 fighter jets.
It also houses the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, a major air force research and development centre. Other installations in the area include the AK Regiment camp in Mansar, the SSG base and Artillery headquarters in Attock.
The air force spokesman, however, said that the Minhas air base did not house nuclear weapons. “No air base is a nuclear air base in Pakistan,” he said. The base at Kamra has previously come under attack twice, once in 2007 and then in 2009. A suicide bomber had killed eight people in an attack on a check post outside the base on October 23, 2009. In December 2007, a suicide bomber had targeted a school bus and injured at least five children of employees at the base.
Inquiry
Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt appointed a five-member inquiry committee headed by Air Marshal Syed Athar Hussain Bukhari. He also announced Rs1 million for the family of martyred sepoy Asif Ramzan.
(Read: Attack on PAF base in Kamra)
Published in The Express Tribune, August 17th, 2012.

 

[Raja.Pakistani]

Pakistan Air force was able to curb the attack successfully by the grace of Allah..these terrorist are just paid agent of anti-Pakistan forces and they will always get the bullet on their coward *****. We are proud on our martyred soldier Mr Asif who sacrificed his life in this operation and no one can look at Pakistan with evil eyes until this country have sons like him. It was good to see that our senior officer Air Commodore Azam Khan led the operation up-front

 

[Emmie]

Alert air force repels militant raid on key base
By Rashid Ali
Published: August 17, 2012
ATTOCK:
While militants were previously successful in storming an army installation (GHQ) and a Naval base (Mehran), which were both held hostage for a number of hours, the third and often-ignored branch of the military, the air force, effectively stymied a similar raid on its key base.
Nine heavily-armed militants attempted to infiltrate Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Minhas base, a vital installation located in Kamra, outside Attock. However, the audacious raid inflicted little physical damage compared to similar endeavours in the past few years.
The Pakistan Air Force said nine attackers, dressed in military fatigues and armed with rocket propelled-grenades and suicide vests, targeted the base and the adjacent Pakistan Aeronautical Complex at 2am, local time.
The militants moved through a nearby village, Pind Makhan, and climbed a
nine foot wall strung with barbed wire to break into the base, sources said. However, they were immediately engaged by a security personnel, deployed at a watchtower along the boundary wall, who informed his colleagues.
The militants, most of whom were strapped with suicide bomb vests, were unable to cross the inner security cordon. They were engaged in an operation that lasted about 20 minutes, sources in the PAF said. The attack left one air force security guard, sepoy Asif Ramzan dead, besides the nine militants, and an aircraft slightly damaged.
The pre-dawn assault, promptly claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP), came days after reports surfaced of Pakistan’s willingness to launch an operation in the restive and largely-untouched North Waziristan agency – known to be a hotbed of local and foreign militants.
The operation
“There was an announcement by megaphone for soldiers not to move from the barracks,” said an officer. Special forces and police scrambled to the scene.
Security forces opened fire when militants approached aircraft hangars, prompting other militants to fire rocket-propelled grenades from outside the base’s walls, said the air force spokesperson.
“Eight miscreants were killed inside the Minhas base boundary wall and one miscreant exploded himself outside the perimeters where he was hiding,” the air force said. It said there had been a shootout “for more than two hours” and 10 hours after the assault began, spokesperson Tariq Mahmood confirmed the base was “totally safe”.
About an hour later, a series of small explosions could be heard as improvised explosive devices planted on the base by the militants were successfully control-detonated by the military. Base commander Air Commodore Muhammad Azam, who led the operation against the attackers, was shot in the shoulder, but is in stable condition, said spokesman Captain Tariq Mahmood.
Responsibility
The Pakistani Taliban promptly claimed responsibility for the attack and said the planes at the base were being used to kill its fighters.
Spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan dedicated the attack to late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and claimed four Taliban fighters were killed after destroying three aircraft and killing a dozen soldiers.
“We are proud of this operation. Our leadership had decided to attack Kamra base a long time ago,” Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said by telephone from an undisclosed location.
Attack repelled
Despite the infiltration, the militants were able to inflict little damage at the key base. Sources said that was possibly because the base was already on red alert due to intelligence reports of imminent attack received earlier. Previous Taliban assaults on Pakistani military bases have exacted far higher casualty tolls. In May 2011, for instance, it took 17 hours to quell an attack on an air base in Karachi claimed by the Taliban. The complex, located halfway between Islamabad and Peshawar on the GT Road, assembles Mirage and, with Chinese assistance, JF-17 fighter jets.
It also houses the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, a major air force research and development centre. Other installations in the area include the AK Regiment camp in Mansar, the SSG base and Artillery headquarters in Attock.
The air force spokesman, however, said that the Minhas air base did not house nuclear weapons. “No air base is a nuclear air base in Pakistan,” he said. The base at Kamra has previously come under attack twice, once in 2007 and then in 2009. A suicide bomber had killed eight people in an attack on a check post outside the base on October 23, 2009. In December 2007, a suicide bomber had targeted a school bus and injured at least five children of employees at the base.
Inquiry
Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt appointed a five-member inquiry committee headed by Air Marshal Syed Athar Hussain Bukhari. He also announced Rs1 million for the family of martyred sepoy Asif Ramzan.
(Read: Attack on PAF base in Kamra)
Published in The Express Tribune, August 17th, 2012.

Pathetic reporting.. Inner security cordon is prolly inside the aircraft!

 

[JonAsad]

Why i get the feeling that keeping the public away from the truth is the new policy-
one aircraft was apparantly damaged and no news about it-

 

[Last Hope]

Why i get the feeling that keeping the public away from the truth is the new policy-
one aircraft was apparantly damaged and no news about it-

A RPG exploded near it, and it only got few splinters. That was nothing to be shown as breaking news, and it would be repaid in few hours.

 

[krash]

look fingers of pork shiiiiiiiiiit someone fire on hands before this bastard fire on them

If you look close you'll see that they also tried to shoot his manhood off......but there wasn't any.

 

[Safriz]

Why i get the feeling that keeping the public away from the truth is the new policy-
one aircraft was apparantly damaged and no news about it-

There can be many reasons for that...
First of all this report of one aircraft damaged was from the very early stages of the attack when smoke was seen rising from the airbase and Blasts/Firing heard...
Later it was shown on ARY that the smoke was rising from a structure which did not resemble an aircraft or aircraft hanger....
No official word came out after the initial report on damaged air craft...

So the conclusion is that may be it was mistaken report..They assumed that the smoke is coming from an aircraft....and later found that it was a fuel tank...

Or second reason may be that the terrorists really did succeed in Destroying the Erieye... and they are awaiting inquiry board to give their statement....

Nothing can be said for sure...Unlike Mehran base atttack where the P3 orion could be seen burning froom sharah-e-faisal and there was no way for the Navy to deny this.