Islamabad: Three senior officers of the Pakistan Navy have been penalised after a court martial found them guilty of negligence and dereliction of duty during a deadly Taliban attack on a key naval airbase in Karachi last year which also destroyed two US-made surveillance aircraft. The navy's media arm confirmed that the three officers were tried "under the naval law and were accordingly penalised." It did not identify the officers...
12:31 PM, May 22, 2012
Islamabad: A complaint registered with police by the Pakistan Navy on the terrorist assault on a naval airbase said the attack was carried out by 10-12 militants, contradicting Interior Minister Rehman Malik's assertion that only six attackers were involved. Police officials in Karachi said a First Information Report registered at Sharah-e-Faisal police station quoted Lt Irfan Asghar who was on duty when PNS Mehran was attacked as saying that 10-12...
03:50 PM, May 24, 2011
Karachi: Terming the Taliban attack on the Mehran naval air base as a "big security lapse", Pakistani defense and political analysts on Monday said that "insiders" were facilitating the militants in their deadly agenda and asked the government and military to wake up to this. The daring attack by the armed militants, who used rockets, grenades and heavy ammunition, has raised serious doubt over the military's ability to protect its...
02:45 PM, May 23, 2011
Islamabad: The following is a timeline of violent incidents in Pakistan since the May 2 killing of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in a US commandos operation in Abbottabad: May 22/23: Fierce gunfights raged overnight as heavily-armed terrorists stormed a key military facility in Karachi, destroyed two surveillance aircraft and left five personnel dead. May 21: Fifteen people were killed in a NATO oil tanker blast following a bomb...
01:12 PM, May 23, 2011
Islamabad: Chinese military personnel are among the hostages taken by terrorists who stormed a Pakistani naval facility in Karachi, a media report said on Monday. BBC reported that the rebels, who struck at PNS Mehran, were holding people hostages, including Chinese military personnel. Xinhua said the terrorist have retreated into a building within the base and are holding an unknown number of hostages as human shield to fight back the...
12:57 PM, May 23, 2011
Karachi: After a 17-hour long brazen siege, Pakistan retook control of its key naval base on Monday. 12 commandos were killed, many others were injured before the elite commandos backed by hundreds of paramilitary retook control of the Mehran naval base. According to reports, four militants were killed in the fierce gunbattle. Before they were silenced, the handful of Taliban militants destroyed two planes. The Tehreek-e-Taliban and Baloch separatists have...
11:23 AM, May 23, 2011
Islamabad: An advertisement issued by the Pakistan Navy on Tuesday for a multi-national exercise prominently featured images of Indian Navy warships even though India is not among the countries participating in the manoeuvres being held in the Arabian Sea. The full-page advertisement for the Aman-11 exercise, which appeared in The Nation and Nawa-e-Waqt newspapers, featured images of the Indian Navy's Delhi, Godavari and Talwar-class warships. It also featured images of...
02:40 PM, Mar 08, 2011
!['Pak navy frogman trained 26/11 terrorists']( "'Pak navy frogman trained 26/11 terrorists'")
New Delhi: A Pakistani navy trainer was involved in training the 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists who attacked Mumbai in November 2008, according to revelations by terror operative David Coleman Headley to his Indian interrogators, an official said in New Delhi. Headley's interrogation inputs corroborate what Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist among the 10, told investigators during his quizzing, said the official. "Kasab had confessed that they got training from...
11:13 PM, Jul 19, 2010
![Bomb blast outside Pak Navy office, 1 killed]( "Bomb blast outside Pak Navy office, 1 killed")
The bomb was hidden in a motorcycle that was in a parking area for two-wheelers outside the office. ...
02:00 PM, Jun 10, 2010
Admiral Noman Bashir says Pakistani Navy is not an investigative agency. ...
12:44 AM, Mar 01, 2009
Admiral Bashir says he didn't have the authority to speak about investigation. ...
02:09 PM, Feb 28, 2009
Admiral Bashir contradicts Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik. ...
10:57 PM, Feb 27, 2009
Home Minister Chidambaram urges country to speak in one voice. ...
06:39 PM, Feb 27, 2009
No proof that Kasab used sea to reach Mumbai, says officer. ...
04:55 PM, Feb 27, 2009
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