Some questions... By Ausaf
24 August, 2012
The security personnel at the PAF Base Minhas, Kamra, need to be applauded for effectively engaging the militants and killing nine of them.
The attack on the air force base at Kamra has raised a few questions as to how the militants were able to infiltrate into the highly guarded air base and were able to engage security personnel inside the base for nearly four hours. Why was the entire perimeter of the base not covered and monitored round the clock by stationary and patrolling guards, thus enabling the intruders to scale a 2.7 metre high wall strung with barbed wire to break into the base from behind the base at around 2:00 am? Why was the likely approach of the enemy from outside the base area around the base perimeter not guarded?
No attack on well protected military installations can be carried out unless the attackers and their sponsors have full information about their targets. Attackers cannot infiltrate into the protected target as easily as they did at the Kamra airbase without having prior knowledge about the target and the route to be taken to reach the target.
The PAF must look into all possibilities when investigating this attack. It is suggested that the services of PAF retired officers expert in the security of air bases who have participated in both the Indo-Pak wars of 1965 and 1971 may be obtained to benefit the PAF with their rich valuable experience.
SQN LDR (RETD) S AUSAF HUSAIN Karachi