Back Assaut du quartier général de l'armée pakistanaise de 2009 French パキスタン陸軍総司令部襲撃事件 Japanese Chiến dịch Janbaz Vietnamese

Operation Janbaz

Operation Janbaz
Part of the Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Date10–11 October 2009
Location
Rawalpindi, Punjab Province, Pakistan
Result

Pakistani victory

  • Taliban commander captured
  • Pakistani hostages were rescued
Belligerents
Pakistan Army Afghanistan Tehrik-i-Taliban,[1]
LeJ[2][3]
Commanders and leaders
BGen Anwar-ul-Haq Ramday  †[4]
Lt.Col Waseem Amir  †[5]		 Afghanistan Mohammed Aqeel  (POW)
Units involved

 Pakistan Army

Unknown
Strength
Unknown (Possibly 50–100) 10 TTP militants
Casualties and losses
12 killed[6] 9 killed
1 captured
2 civilian hostages killed

The Pakistan Army General Headquarters attack (Codename: Operation Janbaz; Urdu: فوجی آپریشن جانباز), was a hostage-rescue mission carried by SSG Division on 10 October 2009, when 10 gunmen[7] in military uniform opened fire on the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.[8] The attack killed nine soldiers, nine militants and two civilians and was a major escalation in Pakistan's domestic insurgency.[9] One militant was wounded and captured by security forces.[2][3][8] Soon after the attack, the militants infiltrated the security buildings where 22 civilian and military officials were held hostage by the militants. The Pakistan Army immediately launched a hostage rescue operation led by the SSG Division, Army Special Forces and the 13th Regular Regiment.

  1. ^ "Taliban claim GHQ attack". The News (Newspaper). 13 October 2009. Retrieved 13 October 2009. [dead link]
  2. ^ a b "Terrorist attack in Pakistan shows how vulnerable it is". McClatchy Newspapers. 11 October 2009. Archived from the original on 13 October 2009. Retrieved 11 October 2009.
  3. ^ a b "Car Bomb Kills at Least 41 in Restive Region of Pakistan". The New York Times. 12 October 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
  4. ^ "Brigadier Anwar ul Haq Ramday and Lt. Colonel Waseem laid to rest". Pakistan Observer. 11 October 2009. Retrieved 11 October 2009.
  5. ^ "Brigadier Anwar ul Haq Ramday and Lieutenant Colonel Wasim laid to rest". Pakistan Observer. 11 October 2009. Retrieved 11 October 2009.
  6. ^ "Senior officers were main target of GHQ attack". The News International. 13 October 2009. Retrieved 13 October 2009. [dead link]
  7. ^ "Hostages at Pakistani army HQ released". CNN. 11 October 2009. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
  8. ^ a b "Pakistan army raid frees hostages". BBC News. 11 October 2009. Retrieved 11 October 2009.
  9. ^ "[Pakistan Primer Pt. 2] From Kashmir to the FATA: The ISI Loses Control Archived 27 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine," Global Bearings, 28 October 2011.

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