Summary At least 29 people including 23 air force personnel embraced martyrdom in the attack.
PESHAWAR (Web Desk) – In major achievement in Badaber air base attack probe, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Thursday arrested a woman for facilitating 14 attackers.
The woman identified as Zarri Zadgai alias Perveen was arrested from Tela Band area of Badaber near Peshawar.
According to CTD, Parveen has confessed to providing food, shelter and bottles with chemicals to make improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to the terrorists.
In September 2015, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorists attacked the air force base in the country s restive northwest, killing at least 29 people, most of them soldiers, in their deadliest assault in months following a major military offensive against them.
The military said up to 14 insurgents had entered the residential compound at the base near Peshawar dressed in official uniforms.
A military spokesperson reported that soldiers battled the attackers over several hours and killed all of them. At least 29 people including 23 air force personnel, three army men and three civilians lost their lives in the attack.
Some of the militants were able to attack a mosque within the camp compound and killed 16 air force personnel as they were about to offer Fajar prayers while another seven air force personnel, in a barrack adjacent to mosque when were doing ablution, were also killed by attackers.
Separately an army captain and two soldiers were killed in fighting with the insurgents.
DG ISPR Lt Gen Asim Bajwa reported that the attackers belonged to a splinter group of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and came from Afghanistan
It was the deadliest attack in Pakistan since December 2014 when terrorists killed 150 people, most of them children, at Army Public School in Peshawar and also deadliest attack on a Pakistani military facility since 2009, when the Taliban laid siege to army headquarters in Rawalpindi, killing 22 people.
The tribal badlands that lie just a short drive from Peshawar have been the scene of a major military offensive against Taliban and other militants over the past year.
The army launched the "Zarb-e-Azb" operation in June 2014 in a bid to wipe out militant bases in North Waziristan tribal area and so bring an end to the bloody decade-long insurgency that has cost Pakistan thousands of lives.
Security situation across the country has improved significantly and more than 3500 terrorists have been killed in operation Zarb-e-Azb so far.
