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The military was "in the process of taking full control" of the building early on Sunday morning, Major General Athar Abbas, the spokesman for the Pakistani military, told Al Jazeera. "There has been resistance," he said. Gun fire and three explosions were heard near the army headquarters...
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- News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner | about 1 month agoAP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini) Pakistani police officers guard the main road leading to the army's headquarters in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009. The Pakistani military says commandos have freed 22 hostages held by militants inside...
- News Source: Al Jazeera | about 1 month agoThe military was "in the process of taking full control" of the building early on Sunday morning, Major General Athar Abbas, the spokesman for the Pakistani military, told Al Jazeera. "There has been resistance," he said. Gun fire and three...
- News Source: Washington Post | about 1 month agoMilitants staged a deadly attack on the Pakistani army headquarters Saturday in the most audacious indication yet of their willingness to battle the government -- even at the doorstep of the nation's large and powerful security forces. The attack...
- News Source: GMA News | about 1 month agoPakistan's military says commandos are carrying out an operation to free about a dozen soldiers held hostage by militants inside army headquarters...Athar Abbas says most of the hostages have been freed in the operation early Sunday, but operations...
- News Source: Sydney Morning Herald | about 1 month agoDetails about the casualties will be given later," military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told AFP . Military ambulances were moving about inside the army headquarters, an AFP reporter at the scene said. © 2009 AFP This story is sourced...
- News Source: Arab News | about 1 month agoGunmen wearing army uniforms and riding a Suzuki van bearing military number plates struck at the heart of the Pakistani military on Saturday, killing six soldiers and taking up to 15 hostages. The heavily armed terrorists managed to go past the...
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- Blog Source: blog.taragana.comThe extremists, who arrived in a white car, opened firing near the Army Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi and lobbed five hand grenades in their bid to break the barrier and force their way into the headquarters. Four army men, 5 militants killed in ..
- Blog Source: pk.despardes.comA team of gunmen wearing camouflage gears and wielding assault rifles and grenades tried to break into the army headquarters Saturday, sparking a ferocious gunbattle outside the capital that ended when all the assailants were killed, ... The
- Blog Source: jazba.wordpress.com... uniforms attacked Pakistan's army General headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi, sparking a ferocious gun battle that killed four of the assailants and at least six soldiers including a Brigadier and Lieutenant Colonel, said ISPR. ...
- Blog Source: letusbuildpakistan.blogspot.comTaliban claimed responsibility for the attack that killed five aid workers and closed UN offices across Pakistan. Earlier on Friday, gunmen had attacked vehicles being used to take supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan, setting them on ...
- Blog Source: www.paklinks.comThe attack follows a series of bombings across north-western Pakistan. On Friday at least 49 people were killed in a blast in the city of Peshawar. The attacks come amid high security as the army prepares an operation against the ...
- Blog Source: blog.taragana.comThe state attorney general's office said the gunbattle began when a convoy of seven vehicles carrying at least 30 gunmen approached state policemen on a local highway. 14 militants killed in Pakistan ...
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