GHQ Check-Post Attackers Killed - Hostages Rescued!

[kidwaibhai]

geo is reporting the operation has been succesfully ended with the arrest of one terrorist aqeel.

 

[Murshad]

the US, S/Arabia and we r responsible for their training - remember in another time they were the mujahideen fighting the soviets - we r responsible for these "Scum of the earth", and now that they have bitten the hand that fed them, its best to finish them off - forever !!!

Hay Sahib what you said is 100% right but the way these attacks are being carried out don’t you think at some level they are better than local agencies or they are being “directed” by more trained agencies

In Lahore they attacked FIA office near regal chowk and in a Model town same day, before their attack who knew that in that FIA office there were also activities of FBI and in Model town there was a safe house of some agency?

In Islamabad they attacked on a “residential” look restaurant and after their attack news surfaced in local media some “important shots” were there at that time, in my opinion just being terrorists does not work here?

Marriot attack in Islamabad also surfaced some news of “suspicious” activities of some foreigners.

In Peshawar a hotel came under attack, after attack people heard “rumors” that American wanted to buy that hotel

Now this GHQ attack drama, what they really wanted to convey? Do they really have strength to attack here or a strong signal is given to world that in Pakistan “they” are functional every where. Now in western media this has become a hot story and they have already started to say if GHQ can come under attack then their “strategic weapons” are also not safe.

What about recent deployment of some aircrafts near Pak border and just few days ago an explosion in Kabal.

 

[iPhone]

a positive thing I noted. Our media, in all it's entirety has started calling the taliban terrorists or dehshat-gards and not extremists or esteriat-pasands. Also their praise for Pak army and respecting and admiring their sacrifices and valor is a nice change, too. Seems like the nation is finally waking up to stand up against the terrorists talibans.

 

[Fracker]

Now in western media this has become a hot story and they have already started to say if GHQ can come under attack then their “strategic weapons” are also not safe.

This is their one of objective, to disarm pakistan!!

 

[Salahadin]

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan's army says commandos have caught the last militant who attacked its headquarters and took dozens of hostages.
Spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas says the capture Sunday morning brings to an end a 22-hour standoff in the garrison city of Rawalpindi outside the capital. He says the final militant who was caught is wounded.

Three captives and four hostage-takers were killed, as were two of the rescuers.

The audacious assault on the country's military establishment showed the strength of militants allied with al-Qaida and the Taliban ahead of a planned army offensive on their heartland in South Waziristan along the Afghan border and signaled that any push there would be met with more attacks across Pakistan.

The government said the siege had steeled its resolve to go through with the South Waziristan offensive, calling it ‘inevitable.’ The United States and Pakistan's other Western allies want the country to take more action against insurgents also blamed for soaring attacks on US and Nato troops in Afghanistan.

Explosions and gunshots rang out as commandos moved into a building in the complex just before dawn Sunday, while a helicopter hovered in the sky. Three ambulances were seen driving out of the heavily fortified base close to the capital, Islamabad.

Two hours after the raid began, two new explosions were heard. The army said it was ‘mopping up’ the remaining insurgents.

Up to five heavily armed militants took the hostages after they and about four other assailants attacked the main gate of the army headquarters Saturday, killing six soldiers, including a brigadier and a lieutenant colonel. Four of the attackers, who were wearing army uniforms, were killed.

No group claimed responsibility, but authorities said they were sure that the Taliban or an allied militant group were behind the strike. The city is filled with security checkpoints and police roadblocks.

Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said 20 of the hostages had been kept in a room guarded by a militant wearing a suicide vest who was shot and killed before he managed to detonate his explosives.

He said the 25 who were freed included soldiers and civilians. Three captives were killed, along with four militants, he said. ‘It was a very skilled rescue operation,’ he said.

Saturday's siege followed a car bombing that killed 49 on Friday in the northwestern city of Peshawar and the bombing of a UN aid agency earlier in the week that killed five in Islamabad. The string of attacks destroyed any remaining hope that the militants had been left a spent force by the death of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in a US missile strike in August.

A week ago, Baitullah Mehsud's successor, Hakeemullah Mehsud, told journalists summoned to a briefing in South Waziristan that the Taliban would launch more attacks on military, government and other targets in the country.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik said a Waziristan offensive was now ‘inevitable.’ ‘We are going to come heavy on you,’ he warned the militants.

In its brazenness and sophistication, Saturday's assault resembled attacks in March in the eastern city of Lahore by teams of militants against the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team and a police training center, which the insurgents took over for eight hours before security forces retook it.

The attack began shortly before noon when the gunmen attacked the main gate with assault rifles and grenades after bundling out of a white van that reportedly had army license plates.

‘There was fierce firing, and then there was a blast,’ said Khan Bahadur, a shuttle van driver who was standing outside the gate. ‘Soldiers were running here and there,’ he said. ‘The firing continued for about a half-hour. There was smoke everywhere. Then there was a break, and then firing again.’

After a 45-minute gunfight, four of the attackers were killed, said Abbas, who initially said that the assault was over and the situation ‘under full control.’

But more than an hour later, gunshots rang out from the headquarters compound, and Abbas then confirmed that other gunmen had eluded security forces and slipped into the compound.

A police intelligence report obtained by The Associated Press on Saturday had warned in July that members of the Taliban along with Jaish-e-Mohammed, a militant group based in the Punjab province, were planning to attack army headquarters after disguising themselves as soldiers. - AP


DAWN.COM | Pakistan | Raid to free hostages in army HQ siege over

 

[TaimiKhan]

42 hostages, 3 martyred, rest 39 freed. Among the 3 martyred, 2 are civilian employees of GHQ, 1 Army guy.

2 Commandos martyred, 2 injured.

4 terrorists killed yesterday initially, 5 holding the hostages among them 4 killed 1 captured.

 

[arihant]

I just saw this news, i am shocked to see "Attack on GHQ Pakistan".. first of all very sad indeed, and the loss of the hostages, and soldier is pretty bad thing.. this will increase confidence of these Fucken terrorists.. to me it is more like some spys given them information, to reach GHQ, and they came through this way... and it only happened after Black Water.. guyzz please listen to General Hameed Gul, the drama started by US will end on two things, 1 pakistan denuclearize or 2 pakistan destroyed..

even we say indians were backing this, also points towards US backing to Afghanistan.. Things are going toward worst.. Attack on GHQ also generate questions like, are people secure out side? this was the most secure place in pakistan, yet they manage to reach the gate, and then hostage some people..

If anyone come and suddenly attack, you cannot stop whether its secure or not. I don't think there was security lapse as they manage to overcome them on the gate itself, although some gone inside and made hostages.

Wherever you point, it should result in fruitful for Pakistan. If your figure pointing towards India, or US brings peace, then you should not stop pointing it.

 

[Salahadin]

TTP group claims responsibility

LAHORE: The Ajmad Farooqi splinter group of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the attack on the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi, a private TV channel reported on Saturday. A member of the group told the channel the Taliban would continue their subversive actions until the government stopped the military operation in the country’s north; held former president Pervez Musharraf accountable for his actions; forced Blackwater US private security firm to leave the country; shut down all western non-governmental organisations in the north; and secured the immediate release of detained Taliban. daily times monitor


Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

 

[TaimiKhan]

If anyone come and suddenly attack, you cannot stop whether its secure or not. I don't think there was security lapse as they manage to overcome them on the gate itself, although some gone inside and made hostages.

Wherever you point, it should result in fruitful for Pakistan. If your figure pointing towards India, or US brings peace, then you should not stop pointing it.

Not a single one of them got inside the GHQ. Never reached the main gate of GHQ.

Its a security office outside the GHQ perimeter where the security staff houses & the permission to go inside & the in out movement is controlled from here. Whoever comes to GHQ has first to go to this office, get a security clearance then is let go inside.

That is the main reason the high number of hostages as most of them where there waiting to get permission to get into the GHQ.

The brigadier martyred was the head of GHQ security who was housed in this very same office & killed in the cross fire when this whole thing started.

No one got inside the GHQ or even near the main gate.

 

[arihant]

Not a single one of them got inside the GHQ. Never reached the main gate of GHQ.

Its a security office outside the GHQ perimeter where the security staff houses & the permission to go inside & the in out movement is controlled from here. Whoever comes to GHQ has first to go to this office, get a security clearance then is let go inside.

That is the main reason the high number of hostages as most of them where there waiting to get permission to get into the GHQ.

The brigadier martyred was the head of GHQ security who was housed in this very same office & killed in the cross fire when this whole thing started.

No one got inside the GHQ or even near the main gate.

That is what I am saying, its not way security lapse. It's just no one can stop.

 

[Goodperson]

Not a single one of them got inside the GHQ. Never reached the main gate of GHQ.

Its a security office outside the GHQ perimeter where the security staff houses & the permission to go inside & the in out movement is controlled from here. Whoever comes to GHQ has first to go to this office, get a security clearance then is let go inside.

That is the main reason the high number of hostages as most of them where there waiting to get permission to get into the GHQ.

The brigadier martyred was the head of GHQ security who was housed in this very same office & killed in the cross fire when this whole thing started.

No one got inside the GHQ or even near the main gate.

I was observing the incident it is highly condemnable. Its difficult for most of the countries to prevent such strikes as the terrorist are on suicide mission.

Entering GHQ may not be the intention of terrorist but still they managed to make headline world over about attack o GHQ.

If the strike was by TTP then it would have been to avenge the killing of its chief Baitullah Mehsud in a US drone attack in August in my opinion but its difficult to pin point the reasons.

After so many setbacks the terrorists wanted to show they are pretty active. Probably they also wanted to divert attention by first striking Indian embassy in Kabul earlier hoping India would act and PA's attention would get diverted towards India which would have made their task easier.

It also showed that the militants retain the ability to strike at the very heart of Pakistan's security apparatus despite recent military operations against their forces and the killing of Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud in a CIA drone attack in August.

 

[Patriot]

Commando raid formally completed with last injured terrorist’s arrest
RAWALPINDI: The commando raid at GHQ Building, where the five terrorists taking hostage of 30 security men had holed up, was announced formally completed with the last injured terrorist Aqeel’s arrest, taking the total terrorists killed to five, loss of the lives of two commandos and three hostages in the process, said the Army spokesman, Major General Athar Abbas here this morning.

Commando raid formally completed with last injured terrorist’s arrest - GEO.tv

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This scum should stay alive.

 

[TaimiKhan]

I was observing the incident it is highly condemnable. Its difficult for most of the countries to prevent such strikes as the terrorist are on suicide mission.

Entering GHQ may not be the intention of terrorist but still they managed to make headline world over about attack o GHQ.

If the strike was by TTP then it would have been to avenge the killing of its chief Baitullah Mehsud in a US drone attack in August in my opinion but its difficult to pin point the reasons.

After so many setbacks the terrorists wanted to show they are pretty active. Probably they also wanted to divert attention by first striking Indian embassy in Kabul earlier hoping India would act and PA's attention would get diverted towards India which would have made their task easier.

It also showed that the militants retain the ability to strike at the very heart of Pakistan's security apparatus despite recent military operations against their forces and the killing of Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud in a CIA drone attack in August.

If their intention as not entering the GHQ then one suicide bombing or 1 or 2 guys would have been more then enough to send a message.

But as said before, sending 9 guys, was one serious attempt to get inside and do more havoc. Sending 9 fully trained resources with months in training & planning is not just for messages, its for a serious business.

Yes, rightly said its their last ditch attempts to somehow either delay the operation by changing the sentiment of the nation & show the people they can still strike. But its backfiring.

And as for Kabul Attack, first of all (I may be wrong) it was near the Indian Embassy but not near enough to be called an attack on the Indian Embassy. It went in a market near the Indian Embassy. No Indians killed, no Security guards stationed near the embassy killed, no vehicle of the embassy targeted. So i don't think it should be rightly called an attack on the Indian Embassy. But difference of opinion does exists.

And also, the Kabul attack was done by the Afghan Taliban & this done by the TTP, who have very huge differences. In no way they would be connected.

Both incidents highly regrettable as except for innocent life lost, nothing else achieved.

3 days back too, 50+ killed among them children & women in a suicide blast in Peshawar.

Hope so this menace is finished soon.

 

[air marshal]

LATEST UPDATE:

Two commando's embraced shahaadat and two were wounded during the operation. May God bless them for sacrificing their lives for our better tomorrow.

Present arms!

"To Allah we belong and to Him we shall return". May ALLAH reward him for his work for the country. Ameen.

 

[DaRk WaVe]

[/COLOR]This scum should stay alive.

He must regret to say alive, F*** tards