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GHQ operation completed with the arrest of injured terrorists’ top dog

Sunday, October 11, 2009 RAWALPINDI: Pak Army commandos, while arresting the wounded top dog of the terrorist attackers, Aqeel alias Dr. Usman winded up its operation at the General Headquarters here, while five more hostages were recovered and two commandos of the Pak Army martyred in the process.Pak Army spokesman, Major General Athar Abbas told that the commandos have completed the search operation at the security building in GHQ with the arrest of the last holed up terrorist, who in his last ditch effort trying to blow up the explosives that he carried injured himself besides some of the security personnel. The operation beginning this morning on the whole rescued 25 hostages in the first phase and at the end of the operation five more hostages were recovered, while three hostages and two Pak Army commandos were also martyred. Earlier, SSG commandos had killed four terrorists in successful operation at security building.The operation for the rescue of hostages taken on Saturday noon was started this morning at 6.00 A.M and SSG commandos with their great expertise successfully completed the operation in merely one hour and, thereafter, a search operation had started.D.G. ISPR, Major General Athar Abbas told Geo News that 25 hostages were safely freed, while three hostages were martyred by the terrorists’ firing and four terrorists were killed during the operation. The terrorists had taken hostage of 22 security men in a room, where one suicide bomber was guarding them. The commandos on the intelligence information were tasked to eliminate this suicide bomber in its initial raid in a bid to rescue the hostages safely, which was successfully completed, but in this process three hostages were martyred by terrorists’ firings.Sources said that the terrorists occupying the building had planted explosives at four places in order to blow it up if anyone tried to enter into the building, but the commandos did enter into the building in blitzing raid with great expertise and took action against the terrorists.

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