Minhas Airbase

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name = Minhas Airbase
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type = Military
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operator = Pakistan Air Force
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location = Kamra
elevation-f = 1023
elevation-m = 312
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r1-number = 12/30
r1-length-f = 9,950
r1-length-m = 3,033
r1-surface = Asphalt
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Minhas Airbase or Kamra Airbase is PAF Airbase located at Kamra, Attock District, Punjab, Pakistan. It was named in the honour of Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas, who achieved Nishan-e-Haider for valor in Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

On December 10, 2007 suicide attack on the school bus carrying children during the morning rush injuring seven of them. It was a PAF employees bus and the attack took place near the Fauji gate outside the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in Kamra on the Attock-Kamra road.cite web| url=http://www.dawn.com/2007/12/11/top3.htm | title= Suicide bombing hits children’s bus: 7 injured | accessdate=2008-01-19| ]

On January 18, 2008, terrorists fired four rockets at short intervals, one of them landed on the roof of senior NCO's mess and two of them landed inside Mirage Rebuild Factory in the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, however no casualty was reported.cite web| url=http://www.dawn.com/2008/01/18/top3.htm | title= Rockets fired on air force complex in Kamra | accessdate=2008-01-19| ] The base has two fighter squardons and played important role during Soviet-Afgan war.

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External links

* [http://worldaerodata.com/wad.cgi?id=PK48939 Airport information for Minhas Airbase] at World Aero Data