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Shamsi Airfield, the Glossary

Shamsi Airfield, also known as Bhandari Airstrip, is an airfield situated about southwest of Quetta and about northwest of Gwadar in the Balochistan province of Pakistan.^[1]

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Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.

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Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac or bitumen macadam in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parking lots, airports, and the core of embankment dams.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Balochistan, Pakistan

Balochistan (بلۏچستان; بلوچستان) is a province of Pakistan.

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Blackwater (company)

Academi, formerly known as Blackwater and Blackwater Worldwide, is an American private military contractor founded on December 26, 1996, by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince.

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Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

The McDonnell Douglas/Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft that was developed for the United States Air Force (USAF) from the 1980s to the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas.

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Bustard

Bustards, including floricans and korhaans, are large, terrestrial birds living mainly in dry grassland areas and in steppe regions.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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Central Makran Range

The Central Makran Range is a mountain range in the Makran region, in southwestern section of Balochistan Province, in southwestern Pakistan.

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Dianne Feinstein

Dianne Emiel Feinstein (June 22, 1933 – September 29, 2023) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from California from 1992 until her death in 2023.

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Drone strikes in Pakistan

Between 2004 and 2018, the United States government attacked thousands of targets in northwest Pakistan using unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) operated by the United States Air Force under the operational control of the Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division. Shamsi Airfield and Drone strikes in Pakistan are government of Pakistan secrecy and government of Yousaf Raza Gillani.

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Federally Administered Tribal Areas

The Federally Administered Tribal Areas, commonly known as FATA, was a semi-autonomous tribal region in north-western Pakistan that existed from 1947 until being merged with the neighbouring province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2018 through the Twenty-fifth amendment to the constitution of Pakistan.

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Frontier Constabulary

The Frontier Constabulary (جمیعتِ سپاہیانِ سرحدی) is a federal paramilitary force of Pakistan under the control of the Interior Secretary of Pakistan, which is largely drawn from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, but operates in several districts of Pakistan.

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General Atomics MQ-1 Predator

The General Atomics MQ-1 Predator (often referred to as the Predator drone) is an American remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) built by General Atomics that was used primarily by the United States Air Force (USAF) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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Google Earth

Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery.

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Government of Pakistan

The Government of Pakistan (حکومتِ پاکستان, abbreviated as GoP), constitutionally known as the Federal Government, commonly known as the Centre, is the national authority of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of four provinces and one federal territory.

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Gwadar

Gwadar (گوادر) is a port city on the southwestern coast of the Pakistani province of Balochistan.

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Hangar

A hangar is a building or structure designed to hold aircraft or spacecraft.

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In camera

In camera (Latin: "in a chamber").

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Inter-Services Public Relations

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) (بین الخدماتی تعلقات عامہ), is the media and public relations wing of the Pakistan Armed Forces.

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Jiji Press

is a news agency in Japan.

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Killing of Osama bin Laden

On May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda, was shot and killed at his compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad by United States Navy SEALs of SEAL Team Six (also known as DEVGRU). Shamsi Airfield and Killing of Osama bin Laden are government of Yousaf Raza Gillani.

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Lockheed Martin KC-130

The Lockheed Martin (previously Lockheed) KC-130 is a family of the extended-range tanker version of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.

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Mil Mi-17

The Mil Mi-17 (NATO reporting name: Hip) is a Soviet-designed Russian military helicopter family introduced in 1975 (Mi-8M), continuing in production at two factories, in Kazan and Ulan-Ude.

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Ministry of Defence (Pakistan)

The Ministry of Defence (وزارت دفاع, ''Trans''. Wazarat-e-Difa, abbreviated as MoD), is an executive ministry of the federal Government of Pakistan, tasked in defending national interests and territorial integrity of Pakistan.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Pakistan Air Force

The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) (پاک فِضائیہ|translit.

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Pakistan Army

The Pakistan Army, commonly known as the Pak Army (پاک فوج|translit.

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Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) (مقتدرہ شہری ہوابازی پاکستان.) is a state-owned autonomous body under the administrative control of the Secretary to the Government of Pakistan for Aviation, which oversees and regulates all aspects of civil aviation in Pakistan.

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Pervez Musharraf

Pervez Musharraf (11 August 1943 – 5 February 2023) was a Pakistani military officer and politician who served as the tenth president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008.

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Quetta

Quetta (کوئٹہ, ko'eṭa) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Balochistan.

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Rao Qamar Suleman

Rao Qamar Suleman (راؤ قمر سلیمان) was the 12th Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force.

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The Japan Times

The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Umm Al Melh Border Guards Airport

Umm Al Melh Border Guards Airport (مطار سلاح الحدود أمالملح) is a Saudi government air base located in southwestern Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. Shamsi Airfield and Umm Al Melh Border Guards Airport are Installations of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces.

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Unmanned aerial vehicle

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board.

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Washuk District

Washuk District (Balochi and Urdu) is a district in Balochistan province of Pakistan.

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2011 NATO attack in Pakistan

The 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan (also known as the Salala incident, Salala attack or 26/11 attacks) was a border skirmish that occurred when United States-led NATO forces engaged Pakistani security forces at two Pakistani military checkposts along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border on 26 November 2011, with both sides later claiming that the other had fired first. Shamsi Airfield and 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan are government of Yousaf Raza Gillani.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamsi_Airfield

Also known as Bhandari Airstrip, PAF Base Shamsi, Shamsi Air Base, Shamsi Airbase, Shamsi air force base.

Shamsi Airfield, the Glossary

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See also

Government of Pakistan secrecy

Government of Yousaf Raza Gillani

Installations of the Central Intelligence Agency

Installations of the Pakistan Air Force

Inter-Services Intelligence

Military facilities of the Pakistan Army

Military installations of the United States in Pakistan

Pakistan Army airbases

Pakistan–United Arab Emirates relations

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