4 killed in gunbattle at Pakistan army HQ: militaryAn attack on Pakistani army headquarters in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad, ended on Saturday with all four attackers killed, a military spokesman told Pakistani television. "All the four terrorists have been killed. The fighting is over now. The situation is under control," Major General Athar Abbas told private TV channel Geo in a live interview. Abbas said some security guards were also killed. "We are examining how many of our security guards have been martyred," he said, adding that the attackers were wearing camouflage uniform. Soon after the attack army commandos encircled en·cir·cle tr.v. en·cir·cled, en·cir·cling, en·cir·cles 1. To form a circle around; surround. See Synonyms at surround. 2. To move or go around completely; make a circuit of. the entire zone and helicopter gunships began to fly overhead. "They came in a van and tried to enter from gate 1 to gate 2 in the sensitive area. They were stopped and now the situation is under our control," Abbas added. An AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. journalist at the scene reported that the gunbattle lasted an hour and a half. The attack comes as the Pakistani Taliban have vowed to increase attacks to avenge a·venge tr.v. a·venged, a·veng·ing, a·veng·es 1. To inflict a punishment or penalty in return for; revenge: avenge a murder. 2. the killing of their leader Baitullah Mehsud Baitullah Mehsud is a leading Taliban commander in Waziristan.[1][2] The Waziris are a tribe whose home spans the Pakistan/Afghanistan border. The Mahsud are one of the four sub-tribes of the Waziri. in a US drone strike in August. Local police officer Amjad Ali Amjad Ali is a Fiji Indian politician. In the House of Representatives he represented the Nadi Urban Indian Communal Constituency, one of 19 reserved for Indo-Fijians, from 1999 to 2006, having held the seat for the Fiji Labour Party (FLP) in the general elections of 1999 and 2001. earlier told AFP: "A car was signalled to stop outside army headquarters. The occupants opened fire and threw grenades at security guards who retaliated. The fighting still continues outside the HQ. Commandos encircled the entire zone and gunship gun·ship n. An armed aircraft, such as a helicopter, that is used to support troops and provide fire cover. helicopters are flying over." Pakistan, on the frontline of the United States' battle with worlwide terrorism, has been hit by a wave of bombings that have killed nearly 2,200 people across the nuclear-armed country over the past two years. A massive suicide car bomb ripped through a packed market in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday, killing 52 people and injuring over 100, in a region beset by Taliban attacks. 
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