Islamabad: A day after militants took over Pakistan's Military headquarters in Rawalpindi, the army finally managed to take it back. But it still has no answers on just how militants could capture its top office.
Sources now say one of the attackers could have been an army man. But the country'sInterior Minister seems more inclined towards blaming India. CNN-IBN's Deputy Foreign Affairs Editor Suhasini Haidar reports from inside Pakistan that in the aftermath of the audacious attack on Pakistan's General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, the militants were all killed but not after storming the heavily guarded complex. Holding 39 hostages, leaving 19 soldiers and civiilans amongst the dead.
The army stonewalled all questions includng the killing of a brigadier, perhaps the highest ranking officer to die in a militant strike. It preferred to focus on the one militant they had captured named Aqeel alias Dr Usman who's been linked to the Jaish-e-Mohammad and the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore. But Interior Minister Rahman Malik preferred to look elsewhere, hinting that India was providing militants some heavy weapons and ammunition.
In Mumai, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dismissed the allegations of the Pakistani minister saying, "This is a false accusation. There is no truth to it. India is not in the business of exporting terrorism."
Subsequently, Pakistan's information minister laid that accusation to rest as its Information Minister said, "The attack on General Headquarters has underscored fears about militant infiltration in the army and the extent to which it may have compromised its ability to fight the militants to the last man last round.
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