Attack on PNS Mehran Base - PAF Faisal Base

[farhan_9909]

From 1947 till date, that is one thing that is common among Pakistanis. Look what it has done to your country. Shun violence and proxies and Pakistan will stand on its own feet.

my friend
let me telly ou that blasts started in pakistan only 5-7 years back

before that pakistan was better than india in all aspects except in movies area.

in an article i read that pak per capita more than 2 times to that of indian per capita in 1980's

so we were better than you for decades now it doesnt mean that we are left behind than you.
we will catch you as soon as the USA leaves afghanistan

 

[ramu]

my friend
let me telly ou that blasts started in pakistan only 5-7 years back

before that pakistan was better than india in all aspects except in movies area.

in an article i read that pak per capita more than 2 times to that of indian per capita in 1980's

so we were better than you for decades now it doesnt mean that we are left behind than you.
we will catch you as soon as the USA leaves afghanistan

All the best and I will be happy to live next a prosperous and vibrant Pakistan.

 

[desioptimist]

whats up with these specific UK bread and fed Pakistanis and Saudi Arabia? Are you constantly brain washed or some thing?-

Speculating that a whole country including its government is supporting terrorism inside Pakistan requires solid evidence/ proofs- Do you have any?- Personal hate/ or Words of mouth doesn't count in here-


FIRST OF ALL LET ME TELL YOU THAT I AM NOT A BRITISH BORN & BRITISH FED, CONSTANTLY BRAIN WASHED PAKISTANI. YOU ARE A MILLION MILES AWAY FROM REALITY. I AM A VILLAGE BORN PURE WHO WAS RAISED IN A VERY TRADITIONAL RURAL PUNJABI FAMILY, AND TRUST ME I AM VERY PROUD OF THAT. I THINK MY USER NAME SHOULD'VE GIVEN U A LOT OF CLUES.

SECOND I AM NOT SPECULATING, IT'S A REALITY.HAVE U EVER WONDERED WHERE DOES THESE MASSIVE MADRASSAS OF A SPECIFIC SECT GET THEIR FUNDING FROM, I HAVE SEEN THESE MADRASSAS VERY CLOSELY. THE IDEOLOGY THAT IS PREACHED IN THESE MADRASSAS IS SAUDI IMPORTED, AND WILL ULTIMATELY SERVE THE SAUDI INTEREST OR THE ARAB INTEREST. HOW IS THE SAUDI GOVERNMENT NOT COMPLICIT IN THIS CRIME, THE COUNTRY WHICH WE CONSIDER OUR STRATEGIC ALLY, AND A CLOSE FRIEND DOES'NT STOP THE FUNDING OF THESE TERRORIST ENTITIES.

Raza sahi, such soudi funded education institutions are in UK too. Recently there was a program about that in BBC where undecover reporters got the material that is used to brainwash children.
Hope you know that already, dont send your children to such religious schools in UK.

 

[Xeric]

Lt.Yasir who embraced Shahadat during Operation Against Terrorist At PAF Base And PNS Mehran

 

[StrikeForce]

Pakistani militants hit Karachi naval base in Bin Laden revenge attack
Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility as insurgents kill at least 12 people and destroy aircraft including US-made spy plane

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Declan Walsh in Islamabad
guardian.co.uk, Monday 23 May 2011 06.13 BST
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Pakistani Taliban says it carried out deadly attack in response to killing of Osama bin Laden Link to this video
Pakistani commandos continued to battle with heavily armed militants at a naval airbase in Karachi on Monday after 10 hours of fighting triggered by a Taliban assault to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden.

Blasts were heard after dawn local time as the military stepped up its counterattack on insurgents inside the PNS Mehran base, just off one of the city's busiest roads.

Up to 20 insurgents attacked the base from several sides late on Sunday, killing at least 12 people and blowing up aircraft including a US-manufactured surveillance plane.

Television images showed flames andthick smoke billowing from the base as aircraft caught fire, while bursts of gunfire and explosions rang out across the city.

A Pakistani Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility. "It was the revenge of martyrdom of Osama bin Laden. It was the proof that we are still united and powerful," Ehsanullah Ehsan told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.

The daring assault was a fresh embarrassment for the Pakistani military, three weeks after US Navy Seals travelling on five helicopters breached the country's air defences to carry out the raid that killed Bin Laden.

The Taliban have not attacked such a sensitive facility since the February 2009 assault on army headquarters in Rawalpindi.

The interior minister, Rehman Malik, said the militants attacked from the rear of the base at around 10.30 on Sunday night. They headed immediately for the aircraft hangars, where they destroyed two planes and a helicopter including an US Orion P-3C maritime surveillance plane, which Pakistan had received last year. A jet fuel tanker also exploded.

"They were carrying guns, rocket-propelled grenades [RPG] and hand grenades. They hit the aircraft with an RPG," a navy spokesman, Commander Salman Ali, said.

Pakistani Special Services Group (SSG) commandos were sent to the base, supported by helicopters, triggering intense exchanges of gunfire that rang out across the city. Fighting continued through the night with a fresh round of explosions in the early morning - eight in the space of 30 minutes - as commandos reportedly flung grenades as they tried to storm a hangar where the Taliban were holed up.

At least 12 people were killed including 11 naval personnel and one paramilitary ranger. Up to five militants are thought to have been killed. There were unconfirmed reports that a foreigner, possibly a Chinese national, had been taken hostage. The US embassy said no Americans were present.

"We have been able to confine them to one building and an operation is under way either to kill or capture them," said Malik.

Pakistan's prime minister, Yusuf Raza Gilani, condemned the attack as a "cowardly act of terror".

Ehsanullah said the attackers had plentiful stocks of ammunition and food. "They can fight and survive for three days," he said.

Meanwhile, the Afghan Taliban denied unsourced reports that its leader Mullah Omar had been killed in Pakistan, saying he was alive and in Afghanistan. Spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told news agencies that the reports were "absolutely wrong. We completely deny these rumours. He is inside Afghanistan and he is busy directing military operations with his commanders," he said.

Afghan news channel Tolo quoted an anonymous Afghan intelligence official as saying that Omar had been killed while being moved from Quetta to North Waziristan with the help of former Pakistani intelligence chief General Hamid Gul.

Gul denied the report, telling the Associated Press he had never met Omar. "This is propaganda, sheer deception, disinformation," Gul said.

 

[isis]

Is this a joke what the was the Navy doing,

We cant protect our bases now.

Does any1 know how much those 2 Assets cost, We just got them last year, those planes brought a strategic advantage to our military.

And a few ppl can just destroy them, what is this FAKE military or PRETEND military.

Military was the only institute which I though had some merit, U know I think seriously we shd get on our knees and beg China to take over our military protection.

BECAUSE APPARENTLY OUR MILITARY CANT PROTECT IT SELF !!!!

 

[StrikeForce]

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BBC's Aleem Maqbool says the attack was "very coordinated, sophisticated"
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Pakistani troops have ended a siege by militants who attacked a naval air force base in Karachi, killing at least 16 people - including 10 soldiers.

The attackers managed to hold hostage several foreigners at the base, but officials say they were later rescued.

The Pakistan Taliban says Sunday's raid was to avenge Osama Bin Laden's killing by US special forces in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad on 2 May.

Many attacks have been carried out since then.

"It was the revenge of martyrdom of Osama Bin Laden. It was the proof that we are still united and powerful," Ehsanullah Ehsan told Reuters news agency.

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At the scene


Syed Shoaib Hasan
BBC News, Karachi
Clouds of black smoke billowed over the Mehran airbase when I arrived about half an hour after the attack began.

Ambulances, with sirens wailing, stood outside the gate of the compound, which was sealed soon after the attack began. They were joined by dozens of TV satellite trucks and journalists.

Initially, there was intermittent gunfire. However, 15 minutes after I arrived there was an exchange of fire that lasted for several minutes.

We had to lie on the ground as bullets and shrapnel whizzed over our heads.

After successfully freeing hostages captured by the gunmen, security forces swept through the complex to mop up any remaining resistance.

They were backed by gunship helicopters - which kept a constant vigil over the air base.

It took more than 15 hours for dozens of security forces to take control of the base.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik said 10 soldiers had died and 15 were wounded in the attack.

Two attackers were also killed and a third blew himself up. Another is believed to be buried under debris and two more are thought to have escaped.

An unexploded suicide jacket and live grenades were found, the minister added.

There were 17 foreigners at the site, including 11 Chinese aviation trainers, but all are safe, Mr Malik said. He added that all of them were later rescued uninjured.

The attack is similar to a raid in October 2009 in which Taliban militants laid siege to the army headquarters in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, killing dozens.

The BBC's Aleem Maqbool in Islamabad says the Karachi incident will revive fears about the security of Pakistan's nuclear installations.

It is also another major blow to falling morale of the military after the raid on Bin Laden, correspondents say.

Aircraft burned
On Sunday evening at 2230 (1730 GMT), militants stormed three hangars housing aircraft at the Mehran naval aviation base, according to officials.

Mr Malik said they cut through barbed wire at a place on the perimeter where they could not be detected by security cameras, and they were wearing black.

However, eyewitnesses say the attackers were dressed as naval officials and were aware of the security protocol at the base and carried themselves like soldiers.

Their first targets were aircraft parked on the tarmac and equipment in nearby hangers, says the BBC's Syed Shoaib Hasan at the scene.

The militants used rocket-propelled grenades to damage and destroy several warplanes, witnesses said. These included the Pakistan navy's premier anti-submarine and marine surveillance aircraft - the US-made P-3C Orion.

At least two of these multi-million dollar planes were set ablaze.


The gunmen then opened indiscriminate fire, killing several naval personnel as they carried their raid into the heart of the base.

Subsequently, navy commandos and marines launched a counter-assault. Dozens of heavily armed army reinforcements also arrived to provide cover, backed by gunship helicopters.

Some of the militants were killed, officials say.

It took the security forces more than 15 hours to secure the base.

Officials say that troops were now combing the base for any remaining militants but they have to be careful because of military aircraft on the site.

"Because of the presence of several assets on the base, the operation is being carried out in a cautious, smart way," Irfan ul Haq told the Associated Press news agency.

"That's why it's taking so long."

On Friday, the Taliban bombed a US consulate convoy in Peshawar, killing one Pakistani.

Other attacks by Pakistani militants this month include a raid on a security post that killed two police in the north-west and a twin suicide bombing at a paramilitary police training centre.

 

[DelhiDareDevil]

Is this a joke what the was the Navy doing,

We cant protect our bases now.

Does any1 know how much those 2 Assets cost, We just got them last year, those planes brought a strategic advantage to our military.

And a few ppl can just destroy them, what is this FAKE military or PRETEND military.

Military was the only institute which I though had some merit, U know I think seriously we shd get on our knees and beg China to take over our military protection.

BECAUSE APPARENTLY OUR MILITARY CANT PROTECT IT SELF !!!!

Human life cost more then planes dude.

 

[ares]

There were only 4 attackers involved in the attack ..all the news of more than 20 assailants being involved are mere exaggerations.

 

[Dhruv V Singh]

I am amazed that neither the President or Prime minister has given any statement yet? or have they?

 

[StrikeForce]

An attack on Naval base is on one side & Will this give high morale to Pakistan Taliban to take over nuke facilities in Pakistan? What will be the corrective action by Pakistan against such threats in future?

 

[StrikeForce]

Pakistani interior minister on navy air base attack in Karachi
English.news.cn 2011-05-24 00:21:48
by Misbah Saba Malik

ISLAMABAD, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Ten security personnel were killed and 15 others injured in the fight against the terrorist attack on a navy air base in Karachi, said the Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Monday.

Talking to the media at the Chief Minister House of Sindh province after a visit to the attacked PNS Mehran navy air base, the minister said that four of the six militants involved in the attack were also killed while the other two managed to escape.

Two naval surveillance planes P3C Orion were destroyed by the terrorists who were equipped with rocket propelled grenades, light machine guns and hand grenades, said the minister.

He said that 17 foreigners who were there to give training to naval personnel were rescued by the navy commandos.

"The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have claimed responsibility for the attack," said the minister.

According to the minister, the attack started at 10:30 p.m. local time Sunday night and the clashes between the terrorists and the armed forces continued till 3:30 p.m. local time on Monday.

He said two terrorists were killed by the security forces in clashes, another blew himself up in one of the buildings while the body of the fourth is said to be in the debris. "They were wearing black shirts and trousers," said the minister.

The Interior Minister said two other suspected terrorists were stated to be seen running away by eyewitnesses at the base and added that the terrorists sneaked into the base from the back side by scaling the walls with the help of ladders.

"Two ladders and cutters were also found from the spot," he said, adding that the terrorists were between 22 to 25 years of age with fair and sharp complexion.

Rehman Malik said that the President and the Prime Minister were in constant touch with him during the operation and added that an investigation team led by Pakistan Navy will be established whose report will be made public.

He said all terrorist activities were being planned in Waziristan and al-Qaida and TTP were destroying the assets of the country at the behest of other forces that wanted to destabilize Pakistan.

The minister appealed to all political parties in the country to get united against common enemy and protect the homeland.

Editor: Mu Xuequan




Source: Pakistani interior minister on navy air base attack in Karachi

 

[Leader]

Is this a joke what the was the Navy doing,

We cant protect our bases now.

Does any1 know how much those 2 Assets cost, We just got them last year, those planes brought a strategic advantage to our military.

And a few ppl can just destroy them, what is this FAKE military or PRETEND military.

Military was the only institute which I though had some merit, U know I think seriously we shd get on our knees and beg China to take over our military protection.

BECAUSE APPARENTLY OUR MILITARY CANT PROTECT IT SELF !!!!

dont worry dude, the Country requires some more blood, we are just moving our relations in the international scenario, and its gonna hurt someone...and in that process, its going to stop us from making that shift... we ACTUALLY have realized what we ought to do... and its obvious that it has a price that we would need to pay...

 

[Safriz]

Is this a joke what the was the Navy doing,

We cant protect our bases now.

Does any1 know how much those 2 Assets cost, We just got them last year, those planes brought a strategic advantage to our military.

And a few ppl can just destroy them, what is this FAKE military or PRETEND military.

Military was the only institute which I though had some merit, U know I think seriously we shd get on our knees and beg China to take over our military protection.

BECAUSE APPARENTLY OUR MILITARY CANT PROTECT IT SELF !!!!

all is not lost. they may have learnt their lesson and security can be improved

 

[DV RULES]

ARY reported that a foreign hand surely involved in attack over PNS Mehran where only India kept pain from p3c orion air crafts.

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