Blast and Gunfire in PAF Base in Karachi

Pakilarka · May 23, 2011, 3:02pm

Re: Blast and Gunfire in PAF Base in Karachi

^ so who is responsible for providing security to these assets? you or me? if the attacks are still taking place it means the authorities responsible are not working efficiently, and its not the first time thats happened in Pakistan, similar things have been done over and over again. Why are these attacks only happening in Pakistan (these kind of attacks have not happened even in Afghanistan and Iraq)…

If we keep burying our heads in the sand after every attack in the guise of rallying behind the army, these things will keep on happening! there are failures from our army which need to be checked and rectified if we want to remove the threat permanently. a one off thing can be forgiven but a thing thats being repeated over and over cant be left lightly.

I wudnt be surprised if we found that these terrorists had a lot of support from inside. I define secuirty lapse as a occasion where things went wrong for a short time. However this is the safety culture that is wrong in Pakistan. We had a issue where 8-10 kids ( ages 12 and under ) managed to appear before the Air force runway to see planes. The Pilot saw them waving hands to him and called security. Kids claimed that they saw protection wire was cut and we went in to see planes.

Army is no different and NAVY well we just saw, these guys not only even manage to get into base but also managed to escape after there tasks were completed. I dunt get the purpose of making security gates and having hiring security guards if anyone can enter through ur back yard.

Also we shldnt only criticize this system but also try to provide a solution.

1 From GHQ: we learned that just one security gate and guard on the gate isnt enough.We need multiple gates. First one can be regular which is always open and only authorized vehicles shld be allowed inside. 2nd gate shld be electric gate, a guard needs to push a button to open the gate and gate closes after 40 secs or so which means gate is closed for the most part. There shld a good distance of 1/2 km between both gates.

From Mehran: Walls shld be solid and high, protection wire shld be on all walls. We need to Train some dogs and security guards who will just walk around and observe. Security Cameras shld monitor every inch of these facilities.