The security officials successfully repulsed an attack at the PAF Minhas airbase

Soldiers repulse attack on Kamra base.killing eight terrorists. A ninth militant, hiding outside the boundary wall, exploded his suicide vest in desperation when cornered.

One security staffer was martyred fighting the insurgents while four others, including the base commander, were wounded and shifted to the PAC Hospital, where they were later stated to be stable. The Pakistan Air Force said one plane also suffered damage in the Taliban claimed attack that came at around 2:15am.
PAF Minhas in Kamra town of the Punjab is some 15 kilometres from Attock and 60 kilometres northwest of capital Islamabad. The adjacent Pakistan Aeronautical Complex assembles Mirage and JF-17 fighter jets, with Chinese help. And, reportedly some Chinese engineers were also present there when the attack came.The terrorists exploited the night of 27th of Ramzan, which is considered as the most sacred night among the Muslims and devoted for worship. At the time of the attack most of the men of the nearby village Pind Suleman Makhan were in mosques for prayers while most of the men at the airbase were also busy in worship.“Most of the male residents of the village were in mosques for special prayers,” local resident said. “I heard three or four explosions, there was heavy gunfire also,” he said. “It appears that the militants arrived using a village track and climbed over the wall.”
One officer told AFP that he saw flames after waking up for his late night meal, eaten during the dawn-to-dusk Muslim fasting month. “There was an announcement by megaphone for soldiers not to move from the barracks and we were forbidden from going to the area where I saw the fire,” he said. Special forces and police were scrambled to the scene.
“Eight miscreants were killed inside the Minhas base boundary wall and one miscreant exploded himself outside the perimeters where he was hiding,” the air force announced. It said there had been a shootout “for more than two hours”. Officials at the Air Headquarters said the miscreants wanted to target 32 PAF jets at the Minhas Base including the Orion and JF-17 Thunder.