So foolish post by Mastan Khan...please wakeup from your dream world where everything you are assume happens.
The information I have gathered from some "men in blue" is that before Ramadan Operational Readiness Inspection (ORI) was conducted in Minhas. Based on the Intel reports, this time theme was not a traditional air-strike rather a terrorist attack..similar to PNS Mehran.
Each and every person of the base participated in the Exercise, even PAC hospital (situated there) took part. The operational readiness level achieved by this recent ORI and bravery of Sepoy were the two main reasons why PAF was successful in this operation.
MK has been very harsh in his criticism and has made some comments based on assumptions. its an extreme point of view and I have no problem with that.
what I have problem with is,
these so called "insiders" must keep their mouths shut who are constantly feeding the rumour mills. I am sure people will be talking on other social media websites as well, some of them will be fabrications and lies that they know someone in the base but there is a big chance that "someone" in the base will be having a hard chance to contain it to himself and get a little fame and self importance while the news is hot. so the possible failure here is debrief of the civilian and military personnel working at the base.
the other potential blunder was that the commander bringing himself in the harms way and getting shot as well. had the bullets hit him in some vital parts of his body then that would have been a disaster and a bonus jackpot for the TTP.
I don’t agree with Mastan’s claim that he joined in the fight because of lack of security personal or to save his 50+ hide for the possible incompetence and weakness in the base security because even that action wouldn’t have saved him if any of that allegations are true. But if that IS the case and somehow commodore Azam managed to Bull the PAF top brass by taking a bullet on the arm then such leadership doesn’t deserve to exist on the planet. I simply don’t buy it, commodore acted out of panic because his Naval colleague acted like a complete yellow bellied chicken shite during the Mehran base attack.
pre-empting such attacks maybe too much to ask and neutralizing these terrorists in their bases and hideouts might be too controversial because we are still suffering the blowback from Lal masjid operation.
Terrorists have the initiative and they have the choice, they have the sympathisers and insiders as well. Thanks to our legal system we have let go hundreds of sworn terrorists. For the past 4 years we only legislated to safeguard corruption or bypass the court rulings but didn’t bother with amendments in terror laws.
So what we can actually do is wait for the next attack and maybe use some unconventional weapons, I really don’t want to spell them out but will invite the military planners to have a look at the different methods used by special forces across the globe. The equipment, methods and weapons are not hard to come by and we have some of them already. Special forces already think outside the box and thinks as the enemy thinks so I hope for the sake of the country that they don’t just rely on assault rifles for now and use what other stuff they have at hand. I chose not to disclose it just in case TTP decides to use it instead of our response force.
A leader leading his troops into battlefield himself and putting himself in front is the most courageous and battleworthy thing ever. A normal soldier becomes superhuman all of a sudden knowing his commander is right there with him, fighting and facing the barrage of bullets and bombs with his soldiers.
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sorry to disagree but this base commander was stupid to present himself on a platter to the TTP as a bonus. your analogy doesnt apply here. this was a gorilla attack. looking at the waist line and his age I dont think he would have managed more than 50 steps and got shot by a stray bullet. mind you, this is just my personal point of view and you have every right to disagree.
I am not insulting the commander, I am just peed off with him for being a jerk and putting himself in the firing line and giving TTP another trophy.
I do salute the fallen soldiers though who challenged and took out a few terrorists and bought time for the special response team to arrive and confine the terrorists