GHQ assault: ‘Heads of banned organizations held talks with attackers’

Precisely ten years in the past lately, on October 10, 2009, terrorists attacked the headquarters of the Pakistan Military, GHQ, in Rawalpindi, which ended on October 11.

16 military officials and workforce misplaced their lives on this distinctive incident of Pakistani historical past. The principle persona of this assault, Aqeel alias Dr Usman, was once hanged in December 2014 after the Military Public College Peshawar assault.

Strangely, Dr. Usman was once involved with the outdoor global and exchanged messages via letters even if he was once within the name mobile of dying row prisoners in Faisalabad Prime Safety Prison. In a secret letter, he condemned the GHQ assault to his mates and this letter was once circulated to key leaders of Al-Qaeda and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.

No longer handiest this, however an in depth article by means of the similar Dr. Usman was once printed within the Jihadi mag ‘Afghan Jihad’ below the name ‘Sensational Iman Afrooz Sachi Kahani of the Fight of Muqar (GHQ)’ wherein he supplied a minute-by-minute description of all of the incidents. of

The name of the game letter additionally mentions the function of leaders of banned organizations in negotiations between the attackers and legislation enforcement businesses. Dr Usman’s particular writing at the GHQ assault omits point out of delicate places and knowledge and the tale of the negotiations throughout the assault is helping to grasp the occasions of that day.

In keeping with Dr Usman, ‘All his combating partners, who had been ten in quantity, had been wearing army uniforms and the automobile they had been touring in had a faux GHQ access sticky label on it. The come upon between the terrorists began on the Tank Chowk test submit. Military workforce killed 5 out of ten militants within the trade of fireside.

After this resistance, the militants entered part of the GHQ, the place Brigadier Anwar-ul-Haq Ramde, Director of Army Intelligence, Lt. Col. Wasim Amir and different squaddies had been killed whilst combating them, however the attackers later The folks provide there have been taken hostage and the firing stopped.

After this case, negotiations began during the telephone of probably the most hostages. When the safety officers known as the primary offender Aqeel alias Dr. Usman by means of his identify, he was once stunned how our names reached him so temporarily.

After the telephone name, Dr. Usman put ahead calls for like the discharge of Taliban prisoners, the tip of the Waziristan operation, and the discharge of Aafia Siddiqui. In keeping with Dr. Usman, throughout the negotiations, he spoke to Mohammad Ahmad Ludhianvi. “Muhammad Ahmad Ludhianwi stated that I’m the Ameer of ‘Mulat Islamiya Pakistan’ (the identify of Sipah Sahaba at the moment) Muhammad Ahmad Ludhianwi. Prevent this drama and throw down the guns!’

In this instance, there was once a sour trade between the 2 and Dr. Usman gave examples of the daring stance of Haq Nawaz Jhangvi and Azam Tariq, whilst Muhammad Ahmad Ludhianvi gave arguments in choose of the Pakistan Military’s place, which Dr. Usman refused to just accept and Ludhianvi. described as a sympathizer of the military and businesses. Either one of them talked for part an hour however may now not succeed in any conclusion.

After this failure, Malik Ishaq, the top of the banned Lashkar Jhangvi, was once made to speak to Dr. Usman over the telephone. Malik Ishaq, who was once imprisoned in Lahore, was once introduced by means of a unique airplane for this goal for the reason that majority of the Punjabi Taliban appeared as much as Malik Ishaq.

Malik Ishaq began the dialog by means of announcing: ‘You guys do not seem like Lashkar (Lashkar Jhangvi), which workforce do you belong to?’

Dr Usman answered: ‘Sure, we aren’t from Lashkar, we belong to Tehreek-e-Taliban Amjad Farooqui workforce.’

This dispelled the influence that the attackers belonged to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi as a result of one terrorist had claimed that we belonged to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. The dialog between Malik Ishaq and Dr. Usman endured for a while, when no end result got here out, Malik Ishaq left the entire topic to the discretion of Dr. Usman.

Dr Usman’s writing in extremist mag ‘Afghan Jihad’ (Afghan Jihad)

It’s price citing that Dr. Usman has written ‘Malik Sahib’ in his writing to admire Malik Ishaq. Except those two leaders, Abdul Rauf Asghar (more youthful brother of Masood Azhar) of the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed and Fazlur Rehman Khalil of the banned Harakat al-Mujahideen had been additionally concerned within the talks.

Because of the talks, it was once agreed to ship meals to the hostages and there have been no difficulties in shifting the meals.

Stories from meals carriers additionally helped within the counter-operation. It appears the aim of the negotiations was once to stay the opponents busy till the a hit operation and to shop for time in order that the hostages would now not be harmed. After a negotiation-like dialog with Mohammad Ahmad Ludhianvi, Malik Ishaq and different leaders, the safety representatives saved Dr. Usman busy at the telephone in more than a few techniques, thus the time handed.

On the finish of the night time, the electrical energy all of sudden went out and the SSG commandos began the operation.

4 extra attackers had been killed within the trade of fireside and the hostages took good thing about the darkness to escape.

The motion ended with a noisy explosion. One opinion concerning the blast is that the development was once destroyed by means of explosives in order that no terrorist would live to tell the tale.

Some other opinion is that Dr. Usman escaped from there however put his suicide jacket in some other room and blew it as much as give the influence that he too was once lifeless.

Whilst the lifeless our bodies and injured had been being gathered within the rescue operation, Dr. Usman began escaping from there the use of his faux army uniform however was once stuck on the test submit.

The reality and lies or exaggeration within the letter of Aqeel alias Dr. Usman can’t be overlooked, however the general public who participated within the talks on that day thought to be it higher to stay silent in this matter and nobody formally known them. have shyed away from Due to this fact, the main points of such delicate issues are incessantly misplaced within the mists of historical past.