PAF Base Peshawar

PAF Base Peshawar is an airbase of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) located in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is the operational site of the PAF's Northern Air Command, located to the east of Bacha Khan International Airport, which is shared by both civil aviation flights and military flights.

PAF Base Peshawar
IATA: none ICAO: none
Summary
Airport type	Military airbase
Operator	Pakistan Air Force
Location	Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Commander	Air Cdre. Zaeem Afzal
Occupants	No. 26 Squadron No. 17 Squadron
Coordinates	33.9944°N 71.5289°E
Map
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Notable incidents

• The airbase was the site of the 2012 Bacha Khan International Airport terrorist attack by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which left around nine people dead (including five TTP militants) and over 40 injured.[1]
• One day after the Bacha Khan International Airport attack, on 16 December 2012, an additional six people, including five militants and one police officer died and two police officers were wounded in a gunfight that broke out near the airbase. Pakistani security forces claimed that the militants, who were Uzbeks, were accomplices of the TTP fighters who were killed on 15 December 2012 during the airport attack.[2][3]

See also

• Pakistan Air Force
• List of Pakistan Air Force Bases

References

1. "Taliban attack on Peshawar airport leaves 5 dead". Archived from the original on 18 December 2012. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
2. "Five terrorists dead as Peshawar operation concludes". Archived from the original on 18 April 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
3. "4 killed as police, militants clash in Peshawar, Pakistan". Retrieved 4 January 2013.