GHQ Attack

Beyond Conspiracy Theories

MPA 4th Semester

 Facts About the Attack
• GHQ (General Headquarters)
• Pakistan Military Machine
• Ten Terrorists created mayhem for around
22 hours
• Pakistani Citizens
• The stand off
• The civilian intelligence apparatus had
received intelligence about such an attack
at the GHQ and informed their military
counterparts a few weeks before the
attack took place.

These are the facts

• Aqeel, an army defector, also known as Dr
Usman
• Led an equally daring and galling attack
on Sri Lankan cricket team
• Poor co-ordination between civilian law-
enforcement and the military is obvious
 Our Favorite Conspiracy
Theorists
• Americans
• Israelis
• Indians
• Afghans
• TTP

The list keeps multiplying by the hour

 The Symbolism of the attacks
• UN food program
• Suicide bombing in Swat
• Peshawar attack
• Attack at GHQ
 Terrorists Demands
Major Gen. Athar Abbas testified to this at
the news briefing to journalists at his
office
• Brothers-in-arms
• Other demands were dismissed and
inconsequent ional, and not disclosed.
• Media reports suggests that one of the
demand included the trial of former
president Musharaf.
Question about the security and safety of
the nuclear facilities have suffered get
again. And attack on nuclear facility is
perhaps only a natural and logical
progression of the way the terrorist
masterminds would want this war to move
towards
terrorists with Nuclear weapons ? ?
• Henry Clinton said she wants to point that the attack
highlights the continuing threats to the Pakistani
government and the 'very important' steps the civilian
leadership, along with the military, are taking to root out
the extremists and prevent violence and direct assaults
on the sovereignty of the state.

• The GHQ attack came as the Army was planning an all

out offensive against the extremists in South Waziristan,
a Taliban stronghold tribal region along the border with
Afghanistan. (Gordon Brown)

• “We are going to come [down] heavy on you,” Interior

Minister Rehman Malik had said in an aftermath of the
GHQ attack.
 The Pakistani Cooker NEWS
INSIGHT INDIA

The attacks on the military, especially the

successful storming of the general headquarters
(GHQ), was not the work of "scared“ "village
boys" and would-be suicide bombers, as
Pakistani analysts have noted, but of hardened
commandoes (special type of terrorists). Their
long stand off in GHQ was facilitated partly by
the fact that they hid themselves in and knew
their way around the warren of underground
tunnels in GHQ meant for the protection and
evacuation of Pakistani generals in
emergencies, pointing to internal army
conspiratorial aid to these terrorists.
 Liaquat Baloch of JI
• He said the jihadi’s killing Pakistan’s
civilians and military were misguided and
were only doing so because the
Americans were in Afghanistan. It all starts
with “if the Americans were not in
Afghanistan”…
• Marvi Memon of PML-Q
 Recommendation
• The military needs to understand that we NEED
more counterinsurgency troops, equipment, and
training. And not tanks, submarines, and other
high-priced items which are being peddled.

• This is a battle which requires agility, mobility,

and lucid minds.
• Despite the military’s past track record with
regard to interference in political affairs and
pursuance of illegitimate foreign policy goals
through non-state actors, Pakistan needs a
disciplined, cohesive and efficient today more
than ever before.
• Anything less than a full-on counter terrorism
effort from the Pakistani military will attract more
serious challenges tomorrow than those it
confronted yesterday.
 Conclusion
The Army and Air Force are carrying out their
duties splendidly. They have cleared swat and
are now in the process of eliminating the Taliban
from South Waziristan. Once these areas are
completely secured the Taliban will become
history. Despite a BOMB a day, people have not
lost hope yet. They believe that it will be over
soon. They understands that Pakistan and
Taliban can not co-exist one has to yield and
that is not Pakistan. Since its inception, Pakistan
has been under the Indian threat, a neighbor
that is 10 times bigger than Pakistan, so how
can a band of desperados (Taliban) make
Pakistan do its bidding?