Pakistan: Attack at PAF Base Minhas Nov12

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• PAF Base Minhas was attacked by a group of nine Islamist militants on 16 August 2012, during the final days of Ramadan.
• The attackers, who were armed with AK-47s, RPGs, hand grenades, mines, and suicide vests, breached the outer perimeter of the base – most likely by scaling a nine-foot wall topped with barbed wire.
• Security forces contained the militants and subsequently killed eight of them during an extended firefight. A ninth attacker detonated his suicide vest after being surrounded by police.
• Casualties were nine militants dead, two security personnel dead, and three security personnel wounded. One plane and one hangar were also damaged.
• The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a militant Islamist group based in North Waziristan, claimed credit for the attack.