So far the latest is this:
- Terrorists entered base from north and west and over-powered the guards while the rest of the staff were in prayers.
- They managed to blow up a fuel depot but are now pinned down outside the area where the planes and other sensitive items are kept.
- SSG and 111th Brigade has been send in and there are 9-10 terrorists holed up. Currently a ferocious firefight is going on.
- No Aircraft were damaged.
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**Why Pakistani intelligence agencies were sleeping when Afghanistan based militants planned and stormed Kamra air base???
**Seems to be some inside information as well as the AWACs who are usually in Sargodha were in the base yesterday.
Gunmen have attacked and entered a Pakistan air force base, according to Reuters.The target is the Kamra Air Base, located around 40 miles outside Islamabad. The attacked is believed to be conducted by the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) — reports in the Pakistan press have suggested they were planning attacks in retaliation for upcoming military action.
A three hour gun battle is reportedly raging between security guards and attackers.
**Time Magazine’s Omar Waraich points out that this is the third attack on the base since 2007.
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Worryingly, the militants may have good reason to attack the base. **Waraich says that the site is home of Pakistan’s nascent drone program, and a Telegraph report from 2009 said the site was thought to house Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. Saeed Shah wrote at the time:
Pakistan’s nuclear sites are tightly guarded. While experts do not think that terrorists could seize an actual nuclear bomb — the weapons are not kept in a useable form, with parts dispersed — it is possible that they could cause a fire or explosion inside a nuclear site, or perhaps seize radioactive material.
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At the time of writing the attack appears to be ongoing.
terrorists failed to reach the aeronautical complex where most of the aircrafts are, in the news they further stated that, ex air force guys are involved, who were kicked out and now it seems they are taking revenge by leaking the information to the terrorists.