Showing posts with label hijack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hijack. Show all posts

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Pakistan commandos foil Taliban bid to hijack Navy frigate PNS Zulfiquar


Pakistan marine and army commandos foiled an attempt on 6 September by the Taliban to hijack PNS Zulfiquar – at least six militants stormed the dockyard and two of them were killed in the encounter and one of them was a former navy officer who had left the service a few months ago zeenews.india.com. The commandos succeeded in capturing four others.
As per information, the Taliban militants who attacked Karachi's naval dockyard last week were planning to hijack a Pakistani navy missile frigate with inside help, indicating the extent of radicalization within the forces.
The PNS Zulfiquar was a frigate purchased from China and inducted in July 2009.
The Pakistani navy has so far issued only one statement in connection with the attack claimed by the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which said it had inside help and the investigators have detained at least 17 navy personnel for their alleged involvement in the attack.
It seems all the detained persons are either serving or former navy personnel and they had got the weapons used in the attack smuggled into the dockyard in advance and had kept in lockers by the rogue navy personnel. The terrorists had earlier attacked the Mehran naval airbase in May 2011.

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Friday, September 5, 2014

Six months have passed and still the disappearance of MH370 remains a mystery


It is now six months past that the Malaysia Airlines Boeing-777 flight MH370 vanished into thin air with 239 people on board while on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing - 154 of them were Chinese passengers theguardian.com. The mystery is whether MH370 was hijacked, sabotaged, or disappeared due to some sort of personal or psychological problems of someone on-board the flight. Even now the wreckage of the Boeing has not been located and in spite of latest technologies available, no one has any clue. Obviously, questions arise - in an age when individuals can be tracked to a street by their smartphones, how can a huge Boeing-777 simply vanish en-route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and fly on for hours, without anyone noticing? The search had once involved 26 countries and is now focusing on 60,000 sq km of the southern Indian Ocean seabed off the west coast of Australia – the cost is expected to be in the region of tens of millions of pounds. In the opinion of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, the most likely scenario was that the flight coasted into the ocean on autopilot, with all 239 people on board – the pilots were unresponsive because of hypoxia which is often caused by depressurization. That theory leaves many gaps – it does not shed any light on the plane's unexplained deviation from its route. It had turned back across the Malaysian peninsula and then headed south. Investigators believe that it was deliberate because the communications systems appeared to have been disabled just as it left the country's airspace, moments before its sudden diversion.
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