Insight – In al Qaeda attack, lines between Pakistan military, militants blur

Please Like Us!!!
Pakistani soldier is seen silhouetted while posing for the media during an operation organized by the army, in South Waziristan

By Syed Raza Hassan and Katharine Houreld KARACHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Months after Owais Jakhrani was sacked from the Pakistan navy for radical Islamist views, he led an audacious mission to take over a warship and turn its guns on a U.S. naval vessel in the open seas. The early September dawn raid at a naval base in the southern city of Karachi was thwarted, but not before Jakhrani, two officers and an unidentified fourth assailant snuck past a patrol boat in a dinghy and engaged in an intense firefight on or around the ship. …

Source: https://in.news.yahoo.com/insight-al-qaeda-attack-lines-between-pakistan-military-231458374.html

Reviews & Comments