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Director General Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Athar Abbas said Monday that attack on General Headquarters (GHQ) was planned in North Waziristan, adding that the terrorists wanted release of 100 dangerous terrorists by taking top military officials hostage, Dunya News reported Monday. During a press briefing in Rawalpindi, Athar Abbas said that commander Abdullah and Shaukat, who used to work for banned outfit Jaish-e-Muhammad previously and joined Lashkar-e-Jhangvi later, were among the terrorists killed during the GHQ operation. The head of the terrorists who attacked GHQ, Aqeel who had left Army Medical Core in 2004, is still unconscious. Athar Abbas said it seemed that Hakeemullah Mehsud was still alive. He further said that four civilians and 9 terrorists were killed during the GHQ operation while 6 security personnel were martyred in the attack. DG ISPR said terrorists were equipped with automatic weapons, landmines and suicide jackets. He told that the code name of the GHQ operation was Janbaz and termed the operation Janbaz as exceptional. Athar revealed that shifting of GHQ was not cancelled but postponed. He said it was still uncertain if the attackers were foreigners.
