2. Taliban terrorist Adnan Rashid could be involved in the Kamra airbase attack, according to the Interior Ministry. Rashid was freed by Taliban in the Bannu jail attack. It is being said that Adnan Rashid was an Air Force personnel and had detailed information on the air base including details about sensitive matters. (Daily Pak, Baad-e-Shimal)

3.Political and religious leaders including Munawar Hassan and Hafiz Saeed alleged that India was involved in the Kamra airbase attack. According to a report, Saeed said that until foreign interference in Pakistan ends, there could be no peace in the country. He alleged that under a planned conspiracy, crucial Pakistani assets have been targeted. Imran Khan said that it could be in reaction to the planned army operation in North Waziristan. Musharraf said that Waziristan had a political solution and that an Army operation was not needed. (Ummat, Jinnah)

4. Talking to Channel – 5, Brigadier Imran said that terrorists wanted to destroy spy aircrafts at the Kamra airbase and that such an act would be beneficial only to India. He also said that the Kamra airbase attack may be linked to reports of an operation in North Waziristan. (Khabrain)

5. Secret jets used against India, stationed at the Kamra airbase were attacked for the second time. (Ummat)

6. Defence Minister Naved Qamar and Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafiq held a telephonic discussion after the Kamra airbase terrorist attack. (Daily Pak)

KAMARAN  BASE ATTACK- COMMENTS
1. Editorials in Ummat and Jang express concern over the Kamra airbase attack that had raised many questions regarding the security of defence establishments. It is ridiculous that despite a tip off on a likely militant attack, security measures were not up to the mark. Safeguarding the nation from internal and external threats and giving public their basic needs is the main responsibility of the government and in this task the government had failed miserably. Edits say instead of confronting the enemy who is in the other direction, all that the government has done was to confront the judiciary.  TTP was a banned terrorist outfit but they carried out the attack in reaction to the reports of the North Waziristan operation. Edit says that there were many questions that need answers. (Ummat Edit, Jang Edit)

2. Nawa-i-Waqt edit on Kamra airbase attack says this was the fourth terrorist attack on an important security installation in the last 3 years, and it was the third attack on the Kamra airbase. Edit says that the first attack was on December 10, 2007 and the second was in January 2008. Edit expresses concern that if sensitive security installations are not safe from terrorists, then there is no guarantee of the common man’s safety; it questions the security of Pakistan’s borders. Edit comments that the terrorists’ entry into the Kamra airbase suggests that the terrorists were better organized and prepared compared to the security forces. Edit says that the country should know whether this was a security lapse or negligence of duty. Edit comments that after joining the Afghan war, Pakistan has been faced with the worst kind of terrorist attacks. It says that if this attack were a reaction to reports of a new military operation, the military as well as the government will have to rethink their options. (Nawa-i-Waqt Edit)

3. Daily Pak edit says repeated attacks on security forces indicate a serious threat to security. It says that security bases were built to address the possibility of foreign attacks but when they face threats from within, it becomes difficult to tackle. It seemed as if armed attackers had support from outside, even though an intelligence failure is also responsible for Kamra airbase attack. Edit calls for providing employment and resources to people in order to discourage them from joining terrorists. (Daily Pak Edit)

4. Ausaf edit says the Kamra airbase attack indicates that terrorists wanted to inflict damage upon security institutions to affect their morale. Terrorists wanted to damage aircrafts that the US had given Pakistan; some people claim that the US had given Pakistan these aircrafts when bilateral relations were good and that now, the US doesn’t want Pakistan to have them. Edit says that this attack could also be seen in the light of statement made by US Defence Secretary about the possibility of an operation in North Waziristan on Pakistani Taliban. (Ausaf Edit)
Jinnah’s edit notes that responsibility for Kamra airbase attack was claimed by TTP and that that the attack has caused  anxiety for the US over the security of Pakistan’s nuclear assets. It urges the curbing of baseless propaganda about Pakistan’s nuclear assets and calls for efforts to eliminate terrorism from Pakistan. (Jinnah Edit)

5.In his column, Irfan Siddiqui laments at the attack on the Kamra airbase. He recalls that 24 years ago on 17th August Gen. Zia and Gen. Akhtar Abdul Rahman were killed in a plane crash and it was said that that was an American conspiracy. Gen. Zia had fought a war but it was along the side Afghans, against Russia and though the US was supplying weapons to Afghanistan, Pakistan and ISI did not allow the US or CIA to influence their policies. Siddiqui says Pakistan did not even consider the US with regard to distribution of arms. Pakistan sided with the oppressed at that time, and today, it is siding with the aggressors. He says that despite all claims, Pakistan has not been able to safeguard its own establishments as the public was not with the authorities and as it was a foreign war that Pakistan was involved in. Siddiqui says that our analysts are of the opinion that for combating an internal war, we should stop thinking about the foreign war, but unfortunately that has not happened over the past 10 years. (Jang)

INDIA
1. In his column, Bashir Ahmed Mir writes about India’s water aggression. He writes that AJK’s opposition leader Farooq Haider Khan was the first to react when he said that India was planning to divert Jhelum, Ravi, Chenab and Indus rivers’ course towards India, which will diminish Pakistan’s agricultural and power production capacity. Mir writes that India had 22 big and 123 subsidiary rivers; he comments that most of the Pakistani rivers did not originate in Pakistan and that India had started building dams on rivers flowing into Pakistan. Mir says that Indian Supreme C’ourts orders clearly indicate that large-scale water aggression has been planned by India. He urges that the matter be taken seriously and with national consensus, India should be forced to stop its water aggression or the matter should be brought before the international community. (Baad-e-Shimal)

MYANMAR
1. A report in Al Qalam Weekly claims that Burma’s tilt towards China disturbed the West and hence, the US pushed India ahead to have ties with Burma; it claims that the Indian PM’s Burma visit was part of this plan. India is eyeing the oil and gas reservoirs in Burma, especially in the Muslim-dominated areas like Arakan. This report states that India will construct a road which would go upto Thailand and the West has advised India to reduce the influence of China in Burma.  India and Burma have signed 12 agreements and to implement these, they were removing local Muslims from areas where these projects will be started. If the violence in Burma is seen through a political and economical prism, things would be clearer, the report says and adds that the Muslim massacre in Burma started a week after the visit of Indian PM Manmohan Singh. It says that it was significant that this violence has been ignored by world powers. (Al Qalam Weekly)

2. A JuD delegation has gone to Bangladesh to provide help for the Rohingya Muslim refugees there. (Ummat)

AFGHANISTAN
1. Taliban’s Ramzan strategy claimed lives of 27 allied force soldiers in recent attacks in Kabul, Kunar and Helmand. The NATO base in Kabul was badly hit in the fidayeen attack. (Al Qalam Weekly)

UNITED STATES- WAZIRISTAN OPS
1. Peshawar Corps Commander Major Gen Khalid Rabbani said that the government will take the decision on whether to carry out the North Waziristan operation tomorrow or after a year. He said that the armed forces will carry out the operation without outside assistance or help. Rabbani said that they could not do anything that is not approved by the nation and that the nation’s decision is their decision. He added that the decision about the operation will be taken at an appropriate time and commented that this operation will be huge and that anyone fighting against Pakistani forces will be taken to task. (Urdupoint)

POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS
1.JI chief Syed Munawar Hassan said that the Kamra airbase attack could be in reaction to the announcement of the North Waziristan operation and to the restoration of NATO supply routes. He criticised that initially the media alleged a foreign hand in the attack and later, TTP was held responsible. (Daily Pak)

2.PTI Chief Imran Khan said that he would construct the Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital in Karachi as well. (Jang)

3. Ausaf’s editorial has endorsed the federal cabinet’s decision that those, who take salaries from the national treasury, should reveal their assets and that all those must include, including judges and Army generals. (Ausaf Edit)

 4. Daily Intekhab’s edit says that efforts are on for an interim government set up as the current government is nearing the end of its term. CEC’s appointment was done with government and opposition’s consent and now this phase has to be completed with everyone’s consent. Anti-PPP parties have no patience; they first convinced the judiciary to confront the government, and now, they have started new conspiracies over the question of an interim set up. Edit says an internationally-renowned Pakistani journalist in the US has suggested that there was no need to find an interim PM as the CEC Fakhruddin Ibrahim fits the bill. Such remarks make it seem as if there is only one honest man in Pakistan; and it is an insult to the nation. (Daily Intekhab Edit)

5. Nawa-i-Waqt editorial is on CJP’s address where in he said that the judiciary will go to any lengths to establish the rule of law. Pointing out that the Indian Chief Justice  has asked the Manmohan Singh government to avoid making laws that would jeopardize the judiciary’s freedom, the edit remarks that judiciary in both India and Pakistan want that the government should respect the judiciary’s rights. (Nawa-i-Waqt Edit)

SINDH -HINDUS
1. Hindu migration issue has ended after the Hindus have been promised Rs. 5 crore rupees as development funds, 5% quota in jobs and permits for alcohol shops. But after the settlement with the government, differences have emerged within the Hindu community.   PPP leader Faryal Talpur called on the President of the Hindu Panchayat and other leaders in Karachi and held a session with them in which Sindh CM was also present. (Urdupoint)

BALOCHISTAN
1.Federal government has rejected Balochistan’s demand to handover the investigation of Akbar Bugti’s murder case to FIA. (Urdupoint)

POK/G-B NEWS
1. Gilgit-Baltistan CM has called a session of the Masjid board in view of the killing of 21 people in Mansehra in order to bring communities together. (Ausaf)

2. Protests have begun in Gilgit-Baltistan over the Shia massacre in KP’s Mansehra district. People from Astore, Ghanche and Skardu held protests against the killing, and 3-day mourning has been declared. (Urdupoint, Baad-e-Shimal)

3. Baad-e-Shimal editorial on the appointment of IG Gilgit-Baltistan says  President Zardari agreed to appoint Malik Ashraf as the IG on recommendation from the Gilgit-Baltistan CM but some elements in the establishment seem to sabotaging the appointment as the official is not acceptable to them.(Baad-e-Shimal Edit)