Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) comes under rocket attack

Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) comes under rocket attack

On Friday, January 27, 2012 alleged terrorists in an unprecedented move, launched a rocket attack on Pakistan’s top military academy, PMA Kakul in the town of Abbottabad.

According to sources, the attack did not claim any life and only damaged the outer wall of the academy in a major security breach.

It was unclear who fired the nine rockets from behind a mosque in mountains overlooking the Kakul academy.

The academy is located just 500 metres (yards) from the site of the US Navy SEALs raid that seriously damaged already turbulent relations between Pakistan and the United States.

“Nine rockets were fired. Three rockets hit the boundary wall of the military academy and damaged it. No one was hurt in the attack,” Imtiaz Hussain Shah, a top local government official in Abbottabad told.

“We have a security system and checkpoints on the roads, but the place they used as a launch pad is accessible from all sides and there are mountains at the back of this place. At this stage we cannot say who was involved, but they are terrorists and we
are investigating how they managed to reach this place,” he added.

Officials, however, blamed terrorists for the attack. Taliban and other militants are fighting an insurgency against the army, although there has been a marked decline in violence in recent months. Considered one of the quietest towns in the northwest, nestled
in pine-dotted hills and popular with day-trippers from the capital, Abbottabad is listed on Pakistan’s official tourism website as a “popular summer resort”.

The garrison city of Abbottabad was considered one of the safest parts of nuclear-armed Pakistan until American Special Forces on May 2 found and killed the al Qaeda founder in a compound where he apparently lived for five years.

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Posted by Ammar Ahmad on Jan 28 2012. Filed under Latest News, Pakistan. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry