Mian iftikhar also said that these people were to take over the airport and after that there were a contingent of fighters who were to attack and take over places like the TV station etc, now you tell me logically; if they had to take some thing would it had to be an airport or the TV stations first. The airport is a big place it is not easy for ten or so fighter to take control of an area that big, a TV station was a much easier and doable target.
Also don't under estimate the Uzbeks or the Chechen fighters, if they were actually well trained fighters on a mission, they would have done much more damage, they are fighting and engaging one of the most sophisticated and well armed army for decades now and that army is not able to restrain them, I can't believe that well trained dedicated fighters like that can be tackled down so easily.
Also Pakistani army has not made an official statement till yet, I have not heard of any, if you have please tell. When they say apparently, they mean apparently, they are not sure of that. Jumping to conclusion this early without any hard evidence shows that this statement was more of a propaganda rather than facts.
There are so many rogue intelligence activities in that area that I don't think any thing could be stated forsurely, it is hard to distinguish between friends and foes and even the foes cannot be named outrightly, like the Pak army cannot openly admit if even they knew black water or America etc is behind the attack.
We should not forget possible Russian inclusion, as they have a lot of grudges against us as well, the thing is that nothing can be said with certainty. So we cannot blame TTp, Taliban or other Mujahideen particularly. Even if they have perfect good reasons to attack the airbase.
http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=187376
The army said all the five miscreants killed in cleanup operation were foreign nationals, apparently Uzbeks.
The SSP operations said “ they were all Uzbeks having identical Tattoos inscribed on their back and such kind of Tattoos were usually made by the people with Russian backward.”
p.s. read reports first rather than following every conspiracy theory nonsense we like to enjoy and make fool of ourselves around the world!