2NDLD PAKISTAN 4 LAST

Dozens of ambulances rushed to the sites of the attacks to
take the dead and injured to hospital. Security personnel
faced problems in their operation at the Bedian Road facility
as it is spread over 25 acres.

Initial reports had suggested that some women were
involved in the attack on the Bedian Road facility but this
was denied by army and police officials.
"They (militants) are involved in guerrilla war. First
they were active in NWFP, now they are engaged in Punjab. They
are terrorists paid to destabilise Pakistan," Interior
Minister Rehman Malik told reporters.

Malik said all the four provinces have been put on red
alert and security beefed up at all the key installations.
The FIA office attacked Thursday morning is located next
to another building of the same agency that was targeted by a
suicide car bomber on March 11 last year. That attack had
killed 24 people and injured scores. The building targeted
last year is currently empty as it was very badly damaged.
In March this year, terrorists had stormed the police
training centre at Manawan, killing eight policemen and
injuring 90 others.
Thursday's attack was also part of a new trend of
terrorists storming the facilities of security agencies.

Last week, a group of terrorists attempted to storm the
Pakistan Army's General Headquarters in Rawalpindi. Nine
attackers and 14 security personnel and civilian employees of
the armed forces died in the assault. PTI MZ
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