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India-Pakistan
'Air base attackers trained in Waziristan'
2012-08-18
Oh? And what are the attackees, aka the Mighty Pak Army, going to do about it?
[Dawn] Interior Minister Rehman Malik
Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship.
claimed on Friday that because of an advance warning about a possible attack on PAF installations terrorists' attempt to harm Kamra assets on Thursday was foiled and all the attackers were killed.

Addressing a presser, Mr Malik said four of the assailants had been identified. They had received training in Wazoo and the raid, he said, could be traced back to North and South Waziristan.

He said the Taliban were harbouring criminals from all over the country and stressed the need for finding out the criminal mastermind who had sent bully boyz to Kamra.

Mr Malik praised the Commander of Karma airbase who led the operation to safeguard the facility and was injured while fighting the attackers.

Answering a question, he said no decision had yet been taken about launching an operation in North Waziristan, adding that such a decision would not be taken under foreign pressure.
In other words, nothing will be done. How mighty of you.
Rejecting western media reports, he said the defence of the country and its nuclear assets were in safe hands. "When we can develop nuclear assets we also know how to protect them."

About the Babusar Top attack, he said the bully boyz had killed innocent people. He appealed to the people of Gilgit-Baltistan to demonstrate patience and foil attempts to destabilise the country.

He said the government would soon announce a compensation package for families whose loved ones were killed in the sectarian attack.

Mr Malik said an amount of Rs100 million had been allocated to ensure safety on Sharah-e-Karakoram.

He said there was no US national on the premises of Police Lines Headquarters in Islamabad, but conceded that some foreign trainers, including from Australia, were there fro training police personnel.

The interior minister said law-enforcement agencies and police department had been directed to maintain security on Eid.
Yaqoob Malik adds from Attock: Ten suspects were picked up during a search in various areas around the Kamra cantonment on Friday and they are being interrogated.

A large number of Afghan refugees have been living in different parts of Kamra district for years and there is no record about them with the authorities concerned.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard...
a team has been set up to investigate the incident and identify the bad boys.

The post-mortem on the bad boys' bodies was conducted late on Thursday night at the mortuary of DHQ hospital under the supervision of Dr Khalid Mehmood Khan amid tight security. During the autopsy, law-enforcement personnel collected fingerprints which would be sent to the National Database and Registration Authority to establish the identities of the attackers.
That assumes barbarians from the tribal territories have their fingerprints on file, of course.
Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his face ...
a security man who was injured during the fighting with the attackers died on Friday. PAF front man Group Captain Tariq Mahmood said that Mohammad Iqbal's funeral prayers were held at the PAF base in Minhas.

Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt visited the base on Friday.
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