KARACHI: Pakistan Air Force (PAF), in a landmark event in its history, inaugurated a newly-established main operating base – the PAF Base Bholari – earlier on Monday. The establishment of PAF’s new operational airbase would play a key role in safeguarding the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, said Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman. “Indeed, PAF Base Bholari is a project of strategic significance for capacity enhancement of Pakistan Air Force in operational domain both overland as well as at sea,” he said. With the establishment of the base, PAF would be able to support the land operations of the army more efficiently, he said. More so, PAF Base Bholari would also augment and supplement the very important maritime operations carried out by the navy, Aman told the gathering.

Source: Pakistan Today December 25, 2017 17:03 UTC