Pakistani troops today took over, after 17 hours of combat, the assault on one of its main bases by a Taliban commander that killed at least ten members of the security forces.
Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said in a televised news conference, the elite forces Navy, an institution that manages the air base attacked, killed by his party to three of the Taliban insurgents who stormed the compound, located in Karachi, the country's south. Another
assailants detonated the explosive charge that had been attached to the body and two "escaped", according to the minister, who confirmed the end of the assault on the airbase Mehran, where they were attacked two maritime patrol aircraft.
One aircraft was destroyed and another was damaged.
Malik added that at the time of the attack were 17 foreigners inside the base, eleven Chinese who cooperated in maintaining the base and six American contractors, not injured.
Information Minister of the Interior does not match the data sources provided by the Navy, before concluding that the attack claimed that thirteen members of the security forces were killed and that amounted to between ten and fifteen the "terrorists" made up the Taliban commander.
The Taliban Pakistan (TTP, which stands in urdu) has claimed the attack on the military base, which began last night with several bombings and shootings on campus.
The assault comes exactly three weeks after American elite commandos killed the last day 2 to Osama Bin Laden in the city of Abbottabad, near Islamabad, in a operation that the Taliban promised revenge attacks against Pakistan and the United States.
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