Kamra's Minhas air force base is one of Pakistan's most prized installations - part of a string of bases that guard the country's north, it ...
03:52 PM, Aug 23, 2012
Islamabad: Journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad, slain two days after he filed a report alleging the possible infiltration of the Pakistan Navy by al Qaeda, had spoken to close friends about relocating abroad with his family after receiving several threats in recent months. The topic of shifting abroad figured in Shahzad's recent conversations with a small group of close friends whom he regularly spoke to, a journalist who was close to...
05:16 PM, Jun 02, 2011
Lahore: Pakistani intelligence agencies have taken into custody a former naval commando, who was court martialled earlier, and two other persons for their alleged involvement in a terrorist attack on a naval airbase in Karachi that killed 10 security personnel. Kamran Ahmed, a former personnel of the elite Special Service Group-Navy, was picked up with his younger brother and a friend from Gulberg area of Lahore on Friday, sources said....
04:10 PM, May 30, 2011
Islamabad: A Pakistani marine commando from the Waziristan tribal region posted at the PNS Mehran naval airbase which was attacked by terrorists this week was arrested in January for his links with militants and had warned about an impending attack, a media report said on Thursday. The commando, who belongs to South Waziristan Agency, was arrested for his links with the Taliban and al-Qaeda affiliates, The News daily quoted its...
12:24 PM, May 26, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan on Wednesday suspended the commander of the country s major naval air base, three days after a brazen attack by Taliban militants, which killed 10 navy personnel and destroyed two US-built spy planes in Karachi, TV channels reported. Geo television reported that the Base Commander, Commodore Raja Tahir, will remain suspended till the inquiry into the terror attack is completed. Commodore Khalid Pervez has been appointed as new...
09:26 PM, May 25, 2011
Islamabad: A group of highly-trained militants with night-vision goggles and the collusion of sympathetic Islamist military officials storm a heavily-guarded navy base situated only a few miles from where a unstable Pakistan stores some of its nuclear weapons. That is the scary way of looking at the attack on the navy base in Karachi on Sunday night that destroyed two U.S.-built aircraft and killed 10 military personnel, fuelling worries about...
08:50 PM, May 24, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan's military was ridiculed and accused of complicity in the media on Tuesday after a small group of militants laid siege to a naval air base, holding out for 16 hours against hundreds of commandos and rangers. As few as six militants infiltrated the PNS Mehran naval base in Karachi, the headquarters of Pakistan's naval air wing, on Sunday night, killing 10 security forces and wounding 20. "Our mujahideen...
03:41 PM, May 24, 2011
Washington: Pakistan is under tremendous pressure and threat from extremist elements in the country which is reflected in the series of terrorist attacks including the latest one on the nation's naval facilities, a State Department official said. "It just illustrates that Pakistan is under enormous pressure and threat from these kinds of groups and they suffer considerably from this kind of violent extremism," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters...
07:36 AM, May 24, 2011
Karachi: A fierce gun battle was on at a military base PNS Mehran in Karachi after terrorists attacked the base on Sunday night. A 'Geo News' report said that fake ID Cards with monogram of security forces were recovered from the four arrested terrorists while four terrorists killed themselves in a blast. Reports also said that the terrorists were in grey and black clothes and not in military uniform. More...
07:26 AM, May 23, 2011
