There are a number of similarities between the Mumbai terrorists' attack with the recent attack near General Headquarters, Rawalpindi, the Pakistan Army's nerve point where a group of militants stormed the military checkpoint. In Mumbai attack, nine gunmen were shot dead and one was captured by security forces. Witnesses reported that dead attackers appeared in their twenties.
Ajmal Kasab, allegedly the member of Lashkar-e-Taiba, was the only attacker captured alive by Indian police with information about their preparation, travel, and movements which came from his confession.
At least 164 victims (civilians and security personnel) and 9 attackers were killed during at least three-day shootout. Among the dead were 28 foreign nationals from 10 countries. The attacks, which drew widespread condemnation across the world, began on November 26, 2008 and lasted until 29 November, killing at least 173 people and wounding at least 308.
Here in the Rawalpindi attack, eight assailants were killed while their mastermind Aqeel alias Dr Usman was captured alive like Ajmal Kasab. The incident near GHQ started at 11:30 on Saturday and ended on Sunday morning after the launching of operation successfully.
While there is a close resemblance between the two counts, a new debate stirred up among the analysts, offering the masses plenty of reasons as to how to counter the terrorism collectively, to purge the country from terrorism and save the future of our generations from this menace.
Security analyst Sharif-ud-din hailed Pakistan Army's brave action against terrorists' attack on GHQ, saying it has given a crystal clear message to the world that Army is always prepared to hit the enemy who dared to cast an evil eye on it. He however, distinguished the operation of Army commandos with the Indian Army which foiled the terrorist attack in possibly lesser time period than that of the Indian Mumbai operation. "It really has won the hearts of the Pakistani masses", he said. He congratulated the Army Chief on culmination of Search and Clearance Operation.