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.

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  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.