FIR of Badaber attack registered

PESHAWAR: The First Information Report (FIR) of the terrorist attack on the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) camp in Badaber was lodged at the Counter Terrorism Department Police Station under Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act and 302, 324 and other sections of the Pakistan Penal Code on Saturday.
The fingerprints and samples for DNA test of the attackers were collected as the Counter Terrorism Department launched an investigation into the incident.
Sources said that some important leads had been found to identify the attackers and their facilitators.
The sources said that fingerprints of some of the attackers were collected by forensic experts. Samples were also collected for DNA tests. The sources added that threat alerts were issued recently in which it was mentioned that a group of 12 to 14 attackers was likely to target key installations, including that of the PAF, as well as important personalities in Peshawar and nearby areas.
Gloom prevailed all over the country as most of those killed in the PAF camp attack were laid to rest in different areas.
This was the biggest attack in Pakistan after the one on the Army Public School in December last year.
Also, search operations were carried out in villages and towns of Peshawar and Kohat that are close to Darra Adamkhel and Khyber Agency to hunt down the facilitators of attackers.
At least 29 persons, including 16 worshippers present inside a mosque and seven others preparing for Fajr prayers in their barracks were killed, when militants armed with rocket launchers, automatic weapons and hand grenades stormed the PAF camp in Badaber on the Inqilab Road near Surizai village.
The site of the attack was cleared after an exchange of fire between the attackers and security personnel during which Captain Asfandyar Bukhari and guards of the PAF sacrificed their lives. All the 13 attackers were killed. Asfandyar Bukhari had been a brilliant student and had also won the Sword of Honour as the best cadet at the Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul. His father, contented and brave, remarked at his funeral that now their family would be known due to Asfandyar Bukhari.
There were reports that the owner of the vehicle used in the attack was arrested. The police continued the search and strike operation in the limits of Badaber and Matani police stations to hunt down the facilitators of the attack.
Our correspondent/agencies add: Security forces and police on Saturday arrested 63 suspects and recovered weapons from them during a joint search operation in Kohat, an official said.
District Police Officer (DPO) Sohaib Ashraf told reporters that the personnel of security forces, Quick Response Force and police cordoned off the Jangalkhel area and surrounding localities of the Pakistan Air Force Camp Kohat and conducted door-to-door search operation. He said that female cops also took part in the search operation. He said the law enforcers arrested 63 suspected persons, including two Afghan nationals, for staying illegally in the area and recovered two Kalashnikovs, as many MP-5 guns, six pistols and hundreds of cartridges from them.
He said security of sensitive installations had been beefed up in the aftermath of the militants attack on the PAF camp in Badaber.
ATTOCK: Martyred Captain Asfandyar Bokhari was laid to rest in Attock with full military honours.
Sepoy Muhammad Suhaib was laid to rest in Rawalpindi, Imam Fazal Amin and PAF personnel Israrullah were laid to rest in Mardan.
FAISALABAD: PAF’s Senior Technician Rana Shan Ali Shaukat, who was martyred in the Badaber PAF base attack, was laid to rest in a graveyard in Hajiabad, Faisalabad, on Saturday.
His funeral prayer was offered at Rehmatabad and was attended by DCO Noorul Amin Mengal and other government officials, besides a large number of people. Before the burial, a guard of honour was presented to the martyred senior technician.
Meanwhile, talking to media persons after the burial of martyred Shan Ali, his mother said that her son had sacrificed his life while protecting the peaceful worshippers, who had assembled in the air base mosque to offer the Fajr prayers.
JARANWALA: PAF Airman Zain Ali Shah was buried in a graveyard in Chak 627/GB.
A large number of people attended his funeral prayers. Zain’s father Mujahid Ali Shah is a motorcycle mechanic at Adda Lundianwala. Zain’s marriage was due after three months.
TOBA TEK SINGH: Javed Iqbal, a civilian, who was martyred in the Peshawar attack, was buried in his ancestral graveyard in Chak 18, Kagh, near Shorkot Cantonment. Earlier, the body of Javed Iqbal was brought to his native village by a PAF aircraft.
Meanwhile, on the call of the Punjab Bar Council, the District Bar Association members observed a complete strike against the terrorist attack on a Peshawar camp.
MULTAN: Traders took out two rallies to express solidarity with the armed forces and to condemn the attack on the PAF camp.
The first rally was taken out from the Grain Market under the leadership of Khawaja Shafiq and Sultan Mehmood Malik. The participants shouted slogans in favour of the armed forces. They condemned the Peshawar incident and demanded action against those involved in it.
The second rally was organised by the traders of Shaheen Market. Faisal Saeed and Arif Ansari led the rally.
PAKPATTAN: The District Bar Association and Arifwala Tehsil Bar Association observed a complete strike against the Peshawar incident. Lawyers also boycotted the court proceedings to register their protest.