Kamra Air Force base in Pakistan under siege

[KS]

Well said @ saya.

If I am not wrong, Army SOPs clearly forbid such actions.

 

[sayareakd]

Team effort thwarted Kamra attack

The August 16 attack on PAF base Minhas located at Kamra was thwarted because of the combined efforts of the air force, army and police. The prior warning of an impending attack had raised the alertness level of the base. It goes to the credit of the attackers that despite the vigilance of the security forces, they penetrated the first and second quadrants of defence and came perilously close to the high value SAAB 2000 early warning aircraft, which was their primary target for destruction. The Base Quick Response Force (QRF) carried the day, since it was able to double its efforts of defending the target as well as eliminating all the assailants. Inter-service cooperation has always borne fruit. The defensive units of Pakistan Army, PAF's commandos, its Ground Combateers and the Pakistan Police coordinated meaningfully and became each other's strengths to foil the attack. It was this rare sense of camaraderie, which enabled the fulfilment of task, without any confusion in the fog of war, which sometimes results in shooting own personnel by mistake. There were minimum casualties to the defenders, who were ably led by the Base Commander Air Commodore Mohammad Azam, who in the finest traditions of PAF, received a bullet wound, but managed to lead from the front. The attack was repulsed and all eight assailants were promptly dispatched, while a ninth - glued to a nearby mound - pulled the plug on his suicide jacket taking his own life. The state of preparedness of the airbase paid rich dividends, as it successfully executed the defence plan. A sad aspect is that the US has expressed renewed criticism of Pakistan's capability to secure its nuclear assets. The detractors of Pakistan's nuclear programme have been expressing doubts that the terrorists may seize the weapons and cause extreme damage through attacks in the West. The US has even carried out war games in the near past to gauge the efficacy of its plans for taking out Pakistan's nukes before they fall in harm's way. However, it may be a source of satisfaction that America's war gaming concluded that it would not be possible to take out Pakistan's nukes. Obviously, if Pakistan can manufacture nuclear weapons, it is also capable of defending them stoutly, ably demonstrated in the near past. Despite the use of satellites, drones and possible human intelligence, the US has failed to pinpoint where Pakistan has relocated its nuclear weapons. The dispersal plan, including the separation of the trigger mechanism from the nuclear warhead, has been achieved with an intricate plan laid out by its Strategic Plans Division, the Secretariat of its Nuclear Command Authority. If the US and other snoops armed with tracking devices have failed in their mission, how does the US expect a ragtag militia to get hold of Pakistani nukes? Bruce Riedel, a former CIA analyst and counterterrorism expert, one of President Obama's Advisors on Security and a critic of Pakistan's nuclear plans, has been propagating about the Taliban grabbing, snatching and running off with Pakistan's nukes. The informed analyst fails to take cognisance of the fact that nuclear weapons are not hand grenades or tennis balls, which can be hidden under one's armpits and lobbed at the enemy at leisure. The uncouth militia cannot assemble and launch nuclear weapons, which necessitate technological knowhow and the wherewithal to assimilate the expertise of nuclear comprehension. Nevertheless, the successful defence of Kamra should not lead to complacency, since the attack depicts that the terrorists are getting bolder and better equipped at planning and executing sophisticated attacks. Kamra, which to-date had faced assault on a school bus and rockets fired from afar, has now been subjected to a major attack, which nearly decimated Pakistan's airborne early warning capability. The next time around, the defenders of Pakistan's aerial frontiers may not be that lucky. It is time that a decade down the line of facing terrorist attacks, Pakistan develops and executes an anti-terror policy of tackling and eradicating terrorism, before this ten-headed hydra destroys the society. Already the religious fabric of the Pakistani society has been tainted with confusion about support to terror mongers. There are reports that within the security services, there are Taliban sympathisers, who can go to any length. A serving Brigadier of the Pak Army has been recently tried and found guilty of being complicit with an extremist organisation. A complete filtration process is required to purge the armed forces of extremist elements.
The writer is a political and defence analyst.Email: [email protected]

Team effort thwarted Kamra attack | The Nation

 

[sayareakd]

There were minimum casualties to the defenders, who were ably led by the Base Commander Air Commodore Mohammad Azam, who in the finest traditions of PAF, received a bullet wound, but managed to lead from the front

wonder if author has screwed up or what, does he means to say that PAF's finest tradition is to receive bullet wound, as it appears from the above post, or he wants to say that finest tradition is to lead from the front but he received bullet wound. :taunt1:

looks like iska bhi hath English ma kamjoor hai, hamari taraha.

 

[sayareakd]

two different sources at two different forums have confirmed that two AWACs were hit one is destroyed completely and other one is repairable.
Some posted few days ago that Base commander was forced to retire without any benefits. So much for leading from the front and injured at fire fight.

 

[sayareakd]

so for next 6 months they will have only two AWACS from Saab, rest are Chines junk.

 

[sayareakd]

PAF like its army is liar...................... They keep fooling Pakistani public.........

 

[sayareakd]

SLAMABAD: In an attack on Kamra airbase, an Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) plane was destroyed, while ten attackers were also killed, the National Assembly Standing Committee on Defence was told on Wednesday.

It was informed that defence installations have been attacked 16 times in the country since 2009. The meeting of the standing committee was chaired by Azra Fazal Pechuho. Defence Secretary Lieutenant General (retired) Asif Yasin Malik informed the committee that the defence installations saw their last attacks in Peshawar and the Kamra airbase.

He said that in the attack on the Kamra airbase an Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) plane was destroyed. The terrorists attacked Peshawar Air Base from all four sides, but fortunately all the defence installations remained safe, Malik said. He said after back-to-back attacks, army
personnel have been deployed at all defence facilities of the country. He said intelligence officials who supported the terrorists had also been charged.

AWACS plane destroyed in Kamra attack, NA body told - thenews.com.pk

 

[Ray]

This cuntry Pakistan is a country that is totally confused and knows not what they are or what they stand for.

Each one is a Kahlifa!