RAWALPINDI: Pakistan army has foiled the terrorists attack on GHQ and killed four terrorists whereas six army men embraced shahadat during the action completed within one hour.According to reports, four terrorists riding in a white car targeted check post near GHQ.
They tried to move another check post when security guards intercept them. Security forces retaliated swiftly and effectively and killed four terrorists during an hour long action. Six security personnel had been martyred in the operation.
DG ISPR Major General Athar Abbas said terrorists wearing forces uniform and riding in a white Suzuki car attacked first check post with automatic weapons. On the resistance of security guards, they tried to move towards another check point. Four terrorists were killed during exchange of fire. The area has been cordoned off as search operation in underway in the area and situation is completely under control.
TTP group claims GHQ attack
KARACHI: Tahreek-e-Taliban (Ajmad Farooqi) group has claimed responsibility of attack on army headquarters.
In a telephone call made to Geo News office, member of TTP group demanded halt of operation in northern areas, accountability of former President Pervez Musharraf, return of black water and closure of Western NGOs.
Six army men martyred in GHQ onslaught
This ISPR spokesman stated while giving details on the military-militants encounter during Geo news program Aaj Kamran Khan Kay Sath.
He said the search operation cum air surveillance, with a view to locate the fled militants, are underway in areas adjacent to headquarters.
Attack at GHQ condemned
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani slammed the attack at Pakistan Army headquarters in Rawalpindi
President Zardari in his statement said such incidents could not weaken governments’ commitment against terrorism.
PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Altaf Hussain, Governor Sindh Dr. Ishratul Ibad and other leaders also condemned the incident.
4 army men killed in attack: ISPR
RAWALPINDI: The Director General of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Athar Abbas has confirmed that four army personnel have been killed during the attack at GHQ on Saturday, Geo News reported.
PM Gilani slams GHQ attack
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani slammed the attack at military headquarters in Rawalpindi
All terrorists killed in GHQ gunbattle: ISPR
According to sources, four terrorists, driving a white Suzuki van and dressed in army uniform, opened firing and hurled hand grenades at army checkpost outside headquarters’ main gate, which security forces retaliated successfully, killing all four terrorists while two were arrested.
Some security guards were also embrace martyrdom during offensive, Abbas said, adding, army commandos had cordoned off the entire area and search operation remained underway to locate other militants who might have fled through adjacent areas.
The miscreants have been overpowered and the situation is under complete control just after one-hour long gunbattle, spokesman ISPR Athar Abbas confirmed to Geo news.
According to details suspected militants attacked tightly guarded army headquarters on Saturday, as they were in a white Suzuki vehicle and were intercepted at army checkpost no 1, they opened fire and threw five hand grenades at a main gate, security officials and media said.
"They wore army uniforms and tried to enter the headquarters area but when they were stopped they opened fire and hurled hand grenades and later were killed following a deadly gunbattle," a security official told media.
Four terrorists were killed and two were arrested during one-hour long encounter and four army men embraced martyrdom, army sources said.
Media sources said firing continued with the two or three gunmen for forty minutes after the attack was launched. Three blasts had been heard, they said.
Soldiers had sealed off roads leading to the headquarters and two helicopters remained hovering over the area.
Search operation air surveillance at GHQ
At least four terrorists were killed and two were arrested while a dead body of an unidentified person was also recovered form the encounter place, sources said.
The miscreants have been overpowered and the situation is under completely control, spokesman ISPR Ather Abbas confirmed to Geo news.
According to details suspected militants attacked tightly guarded army headquarters on Saturday, as they were in a white Suzuki vehicle and were intercepted at army checkpost no 1, they opened fire and threw five grenades at a main gate, security officials and media said.
"They wore army uniforms and tried to enter the headquarters area but when they were stopped they opened fire and hurled hand grenades," a security official told media.
Four terrorists were killed and two were arrested during one-hour long encounter, army sources said.
The suspected militants had driven up to the gate in a white Suzuki van that was carrying explosives, the official said.
Media sources said firing was still going on with the two or three gunmen for forty minutes after the attack was launched. Three blasts had been heard, they said.
Soldiers sealed off roads leading to the headquarters and ahelicopter was hovering over the area.
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has condemned the attack at GHQ in Rawalpindi.
President Zardari in his statement said such incidents could not weaken governments’ commitment against terrorism.
Four killed, two held outside GHQ
RAWALPINDI: At least four militants were killed and two were arrested amid firing between miscreants and army commandos outside army headquarters while the situation has been brought under control, army sources said.
Some security personnel might be martyred during offensive, sources feared.
Heavy firing, blasts near GHQ in Pindi
RAWALPINDI: Heavy firing has been reported near GHQ army Headquarters here in Rawalpindi, meanwhile, several loud explosions have also been heard, Geo news reported.
Soldiers guarding army headquarters opened fire at a suspected suicide bomber in a vehicle on Saturday, a security official and media said.
According to an eyewitness, the shooting began when a white Suzuki vehicle was intercepted by army personnel for routine checking at army checkpost near army headquarters on Mall Road, so the miscreants, sitting on vehicle, opened heavy and indiscriminate firing meanwhile, army soldiers have surrounded the vehicle and started retaliation.
As many as five hand grenades have been hurled from the vehicle meanwhile, the entire area has been cordoned off and the roads leading to GHQ have been closed for traffic, sources said
The details said firing is still going on with gunmen who had tried to enter the tightly guarded sprawling headquarters in the city of Rawalpindi, near the capital, Islamabad.
Army commandos have kicked off search operation to locate some fled miscreants into areas adjacent to GHQ, witnesses said.
Moreover, the miscreants are dressed in army uniform while army helicopters have began hovering over the firing spot.
Witnesses also feared there might be heavy explosive materials inside the vehicle.
Heavy firing heard near GHQ
RAWALPINDI: Heavy firing heard near GHQ, sources said.
Rported By GEO Pakistan
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