Islamabad: According to police report, suicide bomber was intercepted just 100 (30 Metre) feet away from first picket of Pakistan Army guarding General Headquarters (GHQ) of Pakistan Army. GHQ had been attacked many times before and once Taliban held army officials hostages inside GHQ for around 40 hours.
Police sources claim that suicide bomber had 5 hand grenades with him therefore he might had plan to first attack Army picket with grenades and then entered GHQ area and blow himself up but he was intercepted by soldiers who asked him to stop is bicycle but he did not so one of the solider ran to him and gripped him then bomber detonated himself.
GHQ is quite soft target for Taliban because the entire area is surrounded by shops, commercial offices and houses. Guwalmandi, Lal Kurti, Saddar Bazaar of Rawalpindi of one of most populace areas and majority of shops and wheel barrows belong to residents of Khybar Pakhtun Khawa (KPK).
There are plans to shift GHQ to Islamabad but the project was halted due to lack of funds. In Past one 3 star General who was head of medical corp was blown up just outside GHQ near Saddar Bazzar.
The extensive attack on GHQ was remember in the history of armed forces when nine militants targeted the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi on october 10, 2009 when 12 soldiers, a Brigadier and a Lt. Colonel had also been killed but militants’ ringleader Aqeel alias Dr Osman was captured alive.
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