Badaber attack: 8 Afghans among 28 nabbed

[Devil Soul]

Badaber attack: 8 Afghans among 28 nabbed

• INP
• September 19, 2015, 12:24 pm

PESHAWAR - At least 28 suspects - including eight Afghan nationals - were nabbed on Saturday during a search operation in Peshawar post-Badaber airbase attack that left 22 Pakistan Air Force men, three Pakistan Army personnel and four civilians martyred, while 13 terrorists were also killed.


The search operation was carried out in adjoining areas of Mattani during which 28 suspects were apprehended. Law enforcing agencies have gathered data of residents and forwarded summary to the anti-terrorism department.


On Friday, at least 13 militants stormed into Badaber, an airbase of the Pakistan Air Force killing 29 defence personnel and civilians. Inter-Services Public Relations Director General Major General Asim Bajwa said that the attack was organised in Afghanistan and originated from there.
Badaber attack: 8 Afghans among 28 nabbed

 

[Devil Soul]

Police detain 22 after Taliban air base attack
By AFP
Published: September 19, 2015

Paramilitary soldiers arrive to take position outside the Pakistan Air Force base after an attack by militants in Peshawar on September 18, 2015. PHOTO: AFP

PESHAWAR: Twenty-two suspects have been detained in connection with a deadly attack on an air force base claimed by the Taliban, officials said Saturday.

Taliban militants dressed in official uniforms attacked the air force base in Badhaber area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Friday, killing at least 29 people, most of them soldiers, the group’s deadliest assault in months following a major military offensive against them.

All 14 attackers were also killed, the military said.

“At least 22 suspects including eight Afghan nationals have been detained from different parts of the city since Friday after the attack, and are being thoroughly interrogated,” a senior local police official Shakir Bangash told AFP.

He said some of the suspects were set free after an initial interrogation while others, including the eight Afghans, are still in custody.

Read: ‘PAF base attack planned in Afghanistan’

A senior security official told AFP evidence was still being collected from the site of the attack to find more clues about how the incident happened and how the attackers entered the camp.

The insurgents entered the residential compound at the base, attacking a mosque where they killed 16 air force personnel as they were about to offer dawn prayers.

Another seven air force personnel were also killed in a barrack adjacent to mosque. Three from the army and three civilians were also killed.

The TTP claimed responsibility for Friday’s attack in an e-mail sent to journalists, saying their “suicide unit” carried out the attack.

DG ISPR Major General Asim Bajwa said the attackers belonged to a splinter group of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and came from Afghanistan.

Read: At least 18 killed, including army captain, as militants attack PAF base in Peshawar

“The attackers came from Afghanistan, the attack was planned and controlled from there,” Bajwa said.

Islamabad and Kabul regularly accuse each other of supporting militants who cross the porous border to carry out attacks and of giving sanctuary to them.

The air force has played a key role in the operation against militant hideouts in the tribal areas on the Afghan borders, pounding targets in countless sorties since the onslaught began in June last year.

Pakistan Army launched the “Zarb-e-Azb” operation in June 2014 in a bid to wipe out militant bases in FATA.

FIR registered

Meanwhile, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) has registered an FIR of the attack against unknown suspects.

Talking to The Express Tribune, an official of Badhaber police station said an FIR was registered, and the probe investigation under CTD had begun.

 

[Hussain Farooqui]

Sectarian organizations in Pakistan are being mainly supported by Iran and Saudi Arabia. The ambassadors of both the countries must be issued strict warnings for supporting sectarian organizations.

 

[xyxmt]

another reason to expel all Afghanis

 

[Beethoven]

another reason to expel all Afghanis

They were about to be expelled this year before the stupid govt gave them an extension of another 2 years till 2017....

 

[Mythal]

another reason to expel all Afghanis

Would you also agree with expelling all muslims from Europe and America because some muslims were involved in a terrorist attack?

 

[I.R.A]

Would you also agree with expelling all muslims from Europe and America because some muslims were involved in a terrorist attack?

May be yes, but first they need to live there for thirty plus years, have businesses, schools, clinics, established in Europe. After thirty years we can then have a comparison. What do you say fair?

 

[saiyan0321]

Its been well over three decades since we have housed these refugees. These refugees contain those criminals and terrorists who have plagued pakistan with crime as well as supporting and condoning terrorist activities. We cannot afford this anymore. The afghan refugees mustbbe sent back. They have stayed here for too long and we cannot sacrifice our economy and resources to raise refugees. We have our own future to look out for. Our own people to look out for and our own children.

The afghan refugees must be sent back at all costs as soon as possible.

 

[Mythal]

May be yes, but first they need to live there for thirty plus years, have businesses, schools, clinics, established in Europe. After thirty years we can then have a comparison. What do you say fair?

I am pretty sure a lot of muslims have been immigrating to Europe and America since long before 1985.

 

[darksider]

Why not India give their afghan brothers refuge in india?
both are like brothers and have love for eachother as many Indian post here.

 

[Mythal]

no chutia, those muslims are the citizen of those countries
afghans are uninvited guests, why dont you take them if you feel so much love for them

First of all mind your language. Secondly, I am sure all the refuges from Syria travelling to Europe are also citizens and not uninvited guests.

 

[I.R.A]

I am pretty sure a lot of muslims have been immigrating to Europe and America since long before 1985.

British were also here on your land for more than a century, so what if people now visit their land at least they deserve a century or more of period to stay there? And Muslims you are referring to they also include lots of Afghans.

 

[Mythal]

if you are not smart enough to know the difference between immigrate and take refuge then you should keep it quiet.



they are not in europe for 30 years are they?

We can have the same argument to expel all Hindus from Europe because some Hindus in India drink cow pee which is unhygienic?

There are hundreds of thousands of muslim refuges from places like Palestine and Bosnia living in USA and European countries for decades. a lot more than 30 years.

British were also here on your land for more than a century, so what if people now visit their land at least they deserve a century or more of period to stay there? And Muslims you are referring to they also include lots of Afghans.

Well that is not really a good argument, is it? Also I am not saying that one should do so (expel muslims), I am just drawing a parallel with xyxmt's argument.

 

[xyxmt]

There are hundreds of thousands of muslim refuges from places like Palestine and Bosnia living in USA and European countries for decades. a lot more than 30 years.
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absolutely wrong, you either get permanent residence or you get deported, not one stays for 30 years on refuge status in US and Canada or Europe.

 

[I.R.A]

Well that is not really a good argument, is it? Also I am not saying that one should do so (expel muslims), I am just drawing a parallel with xyxmt's argument.

I don't see their bases getting attacked, their flags being burnt, their people being killed every other day, so there was never any comparison in the first place. I also drew a parallel.