Adil Najam
A series of explosions and blasts have been reported in Karachi in and around various military installations, including the Mehran Naval Aviation base. Multiple explosions were reported from the PAF area near Shahrah-e-Faisal in Karachi. Flames from within the Air Force compound have been shown on television and reportedly some of the attackers are still inside the military compound where fighting continues.
Details remain sketchy and continue to evolve by the minute. Meanwhile, some are already calling this a “Mumbai-like” operation with choreographed multiple points of attack and mention is being made of possibly hostages being taken within a particular part of the compound.
According to Dawn:
Several explosions have been heard near the PAF Museum on Dalmia Road in Karachi. The force of the blasts have shattered the windows of surrounding buildings, reports said. Heavy gunfire was also reported after the explosion. An eyewitness said that the blasts took place near the gate of Faisal Base.
A large fire and a thick cloud of smoke has also been reported. Police have sealed the area. “We are trying to check the cause of the blast. I cannot say,” said a senior police official. Another police official said gunfire was also reported from inside the base, Reuters reported. “Several blasts were heard inside, the firing is still continuing,” Aslam Khan, a senior police officer at site told AFP.
According to The News:
Four people were killed in an armed attack Sunday by terrorists on PNS Mehran, a heavily guarded base of Pakistan Navy, located along Sharea Faisal, according to a foreign news agency. TV images showed flames rising in the air from PNS Mehran where terrorists blew up a US made P-3C Orion plane of Pakistan Navy.
Five injured in the incident were shifted to a local hospital. Additional personnel of security forces were also seen moving inside PNS Mehran. Electricity of the entire area has also been shut down. Earlier, four blasts were reported from the area near PAF base Faisal.
Ambulances and fire tenders were seen rushing toward the base following the powerful blasts that were heard across a wide radius. Gunshots fired from sophisticated weapons were also heard following the blasts. It is pertinent to mention here that in the previous weeks three buses of Pakistan Navy had been attacked by terrorists in the metropolitan city of Karachi.
Few expats logged in from chilled rooms continue to throw up crap one way or other. Rehman Malik is desparate to associate this attack with Talibans so that he could get back to sleep while this time it seems difficult because the attacked seemed to carried out by missions who are actually made for such attacks. While news resources claiming some “WESTERN” attackers, I would not be surprised if it is found that attacked carried out by US or some other “ally”
This is awful… i feel for the military who are dying all the time, they are the trget of most of the attacks… i think someone must have been involved from the inside, a few bad guys are having all of our good guys being killed…
“Militants” attack?… even Indian media is calling these attackers terrorists. Are you afraid of calling the attackers what they are, or are you just towing the US media line who is calling these attackers “militants”. This is what they did during Mumbai attacks, which were labeled “militant attack” and this is what they are doing now. Even Indian media is giving more coverage to this terror attack than your “videshi bhais”.
When are Armed Forces going to dis-associate them from terrorists groups.
Is it time for them to rise to the occasion.
The cancer cells in ‘disguise’ have traveled into different parts of the body. They would have to be carefully removed either surgically or medicinally (chemotherapy).
Without taking the risk of losing its sovereignty, Pakistan would have to come up with its own “precise” technology, spend more time in laboratories, and in research centers and less time in weddings consuming fattening food.