Taliban gunmen take hostages at Pakistan's military HQ, push towards its nuclear arsenal

DEBKAfile Special Report

October 10, 2009, 5:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
Defending Pakistani army HQ against Taliban

Defending Pakistani army HQ against Taliban

Four-to-five assailants were holding between 10 and 15 troops officers in a building near the main gates of Pakistan's army headquarters in capital Saturday, Oct. 10 after an audacious invasion of the complex and gunfight in which at least eight soldiers including a lieutenant general and four gunmen were killed.

Pakistani paramilitary forces battled a second group of insurgents for control of a road tunnel which connects the towns of Darra Adam Khel and Kohat in the North West Frontier Province.

On May 15, DEBKA-Net-Weekly exclusively named Kohat and Kamra as keys to Pakistan's nuclear and missile arsenals and reported that Kohat's fall to the Taliban would cut Islamabad and the Pakistani high command from Kamra and its nuclear arsenal.
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