Five Pakistani Navy Sailors Sentenced To Death For Trying To Attack A US Warship With A Hijacked Navy Vessel

The September 2014 attack on PNS Zulfiqar had left one officer and three attackers dead. PHOTO: PPI

The Diplomat: 5 Navy Officers Sentenced to Death in Pakistan for Trying to Attack US Warship

The five officers allegedly tried to steal a Pakistani warship to attack a U.S. naval vessel.

At least five officers of the Pakistan Navy received death sentences in a secret military trial for allegedly trying to hijack a Pakistan Navy vessel to attack a U.S. Navy refueling ship, Daily Pakistan reports.

The officers were convicted of planning and orchestrating the September 6, 2014, attack on the Karachi Naval Dockyard located at Pakistan’s Arabian Sea coast. The attack was thwarted by Pakistani military personnel with purportedly two attackers killed and four arrested alive (some sources cite 10 killed, including four rogue naval officers).

The attackers allegedly attempted to hijack the F-22P Zulfiquar-class frigate Zulfiqar, the lead ship of its class, with the intention of using the ship’s missiles to attack a U.S. Navy refuel vessel in the Arabian Sea (other sources claim that the target was a U.S. aircraft carrier).

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WNU Editor: This news story has (and is) under-reported .... but if they were successful it would have been a huge propaganda win for the Islamic State.

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