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area on the Sargodha airbase. You and your men will spend a weekend there. Your men will get a chance to conduct a few practice sessions with Hamza’s men.” Gillani addressed Hamza, “Your men will leave for Sargodha once you are back. I will have someone at the base dispatch some trucks to pick your boys and equipment. They will undergo a two-week crash course. Your men will be the strike team which hits the military part of the airfield. Major Shezad’s men will create a diversion and draw the security guards at the civilian airport so that you can get through to the airside and then onto the military side of the airfield.”
    Colonel Khan came back onto the podium again. “Squadorn Leader Hamza, your men will fly to Bangladesh. We will provide you with documents that identify your men as Qatar-based construction consultants. Once in Dhaka, your boys will drive out to an upcountry location owned by a friendly Jammat politician. A HUJI agent will pick you up at the airport. He will be holding a sign with the name provided on your Qatari passport. He will then install you in a safe house close to the Indian border. We will have someone senior from the agency help you out with some basics. He will come and see you at the safe house. You will cross the border and drive to Kolkata. Once in Kolkata, you will fly out the next morning or the same evening to Pune. Our agent and Major Shezad will be there at the airport to welcome you. While your men are driven to a safe house by an associate of our agent, you and Major Shezad will go along with the agent into the airport on the pretext of dropping himoff. He will have a valid ticket to get in and you can buy visitor passes. Spend an hour or so in the airport and get an idea of the movements. It will help you adjust your final plans. Once you are done, return to the safe house; your men will already be there. You will take charge of your weapons and use the shooting range in the basement to get used to the weapons. At 1800 hours you will leave for the airfield. Evening will just be setting in and you will use both darkness and the evening rush hour at the airport to your advantage for the attack. You get into the airfield separately, in two groups, with a ten-minute gap. Once both groups are inside, Major Shezad’s group will begin the attack and create a corridor for Hamza’s men to get through to the airside. You will fight a rearguard action and move towards the airside and hold off the counter-attacking guards on the airside. If possible, destroy or hijack a civilian aircraft on the tarmac. Squadron Leader Hamza’s men will separate into two groups and reach across the runway for the military airfield. Usually there are a couple of airside vehicles or tractors used for luggage transfer on the airside. You should aim to hijack one and rush across the runway towards the military side. The aim will be to hit as many SU30 MKI fighters on the ground and any other military aircrafts possible. Your men will practice the entire sequence in detail at the training facility at Sargodha.
    “Any questions?” Colonel Khan concluded his monologue.
    “Well, Colonel, how are we going to get the weapons inside the airport complex?” Hamza ventured. “You and your men will be dressed as a university hockey team. Each player will carry his kit bag. We have had the kit bags modified to take in specially adapted AKSUs. You will use similar equipment and weapons for your training at Sargodha. Now the Squadron Leader will share some details with you.”
    Gillani switched on the projector. The screen lit up with a photograph of the Pune airfield.
    Gillani explained, “The airfield is about seven kilometres from the city centre. The airport has an airside which is hardly 100 yards from the security check point. The airport on the civilian side is guarded by 10 to 15 armed men of the CISF.” The screen started playing a video of the airfield. It showed ticket printouts and passengers’