Access To Airbase: Probe team may quiz foreigners

Inquiry committee to question foreigners present at the base at time of attack.

KARACHI:

The inquiry committee formed to probe the terrorist attack on the PNS Mehran airbase may question the foreigners, who were present at the base when the terrorists entered, sources said.

So far, they said, the police have not been provided access to the naval base and there have been reports that a coordinator, in this regard, would be arranged. DG PR Irfanul Haq, meanwhile, denied the report while talking to The Express Tribune.

The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Museum on the other hand, has been closed for general public for an indefinite period, sources said. Quoting PAF spokesperson Nadeem Khan, sources told The Express Tribune that the museum has been closed for civilians as the intelligence agencies’ personnel are visiting the museum to conduct an inquiry into the PNS Mehran attack. The PAF spokesman, when contacted, was unavailable for comment as his cell phone was switched off.





Published in The Express Tribune, May 29^th, 2011.