Suicide Bomber Targets Pakistan Military Complex

A suicide bomber blew himself up near the Pakistani military base in Kamra, on Friday, killing 7 people and wounding 13 more. Kamra is located in the north-western region of Pakistan, 30 miles away from the capital city of Islamabad, and is alleged to house Pakistan's nuclear weapons program. According to reports coming in, there has been another bomb blast outside a restaurant in the city of Peshawar. At least 15 people are reported to be injured.

The attack in Kamra, is one of the latest, in a series of bombings that have taken place in Pakistan, since the Pakistani army launched an offensive against the Taliban, in the north-western region of Waziristan. The terrorist attacks have claimed over 180 lives in the last three weeks. The Kamra bombing comes after the shooting on a military vehicle in Islamabad, on Thursday, which killed two military personnel, and twin attacks at a Islamic University on Tuesday, in which 6 people were killed and 29 injured, causing schools and colleges across Pakistan to shut down.

The military base in Kamra also contains an Air Force Complex, which is supposedly, the center of Pakistan's air force activities. This is not the first time that the complex has been the target of a suicide bombing attack. The facility was also attacked in December 2007, when a suicide bomber blew up the car he was traveling in, outside the air force base, injuring 5 people. That was when concerns about the safety of Pakistan's nuclear weapons first surfaced. There has been speculation on an international level, about the Kamra complex being used as a base, for planes carrying nuclear warheads, and the safety of nuclear weapons, although Pakistan denied any possibility of this.

A high level security meeting has been called in Pakistan in the wake of the incidents that have taken place in the country over the last month, as a result of Pakistan's ongoing fight against the infiltration by Islamic militants from across the border that Pakistan shares with Afganistan. One wonders how things will progress as the war on terrorism wages on.