Security forces have stormed the Pakistani army headquarters in Rawalpindi, freeing 25 hostages held there by suspected Taliban fighters, according to the military.The army operation got under way in the early hours of Sunday morning. Reports said that three hostages and four fighters were killed in the assault. "Twenty-five hostages have been freed. Three hostages and four terrorists were killed in the rescue operation," Major-General Athar Abbas, the Pakistani military spokesman, said. He said that 20 of the hostages had been kept in a room, guarded by one of the fighters who was wearing a suicide vest.
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