ISLAMABAD: Besides the destruction of P-3C Orion aircraft of the Pakistan Navy, the twin aim of the recent terrorist attack on PNS Mehran Base in Karachi was to harm the 11 Chinese engineers, informed sources said on Wednesday.
They revealed the footsteps of the attackers go to India. “Eleven Chinese engineers, who were working on a very important project, were present in the Base Mess when the terrorists attacked the compound. Six US marines were also present in their separate mess and the security of the Chinese and Americans was given the top priority, as the attackers were charging on from two directions because the two messes were not located at one place,” informed sources told The News.
The sources said security officials first safely evacuated the Chinese and Americans, which is being considered a big success, and the two countries also expressed their satisfaction over the safe evacuation of their nationals. They said although the attackers succeeded in destroying the aircraft, their plot to harm the Chinese engineers was foiled.
“The Chinese engineers were working with Pakistani engineers on a project to enhance the defence capabilities of the Pakistan Navy. The project had, however, been completed and its demonstration had also been given sometime ago,” the sources said.
“Since India is the only country in the region that feels troubled by the Pakistan Navy, which had awfully beaten the Indian Navy in Operation Dwarka of 1965. Since then, it has been an earnest desire of India to harm the Pakistan Navy but it was perhaps not possible on battle front, hence it struck the PNS Mehran,” reasoned the sources privy to the matter, disclosing that sufficient evidence of the Indian involvement in the attack has been found.
The sources said that the Indian access to the terror outfits active in Pakistan through her consulates in Afghanistan has a major threat to internal security of the country. This is the reason that Pakistan has always been voicing concern over opening of an unjustified number of the Indian consulates in the war-ravaged and lawless neighbouring country of Afghanistan, they said.
“The attack on the PNS Mehran was conceived by the top secret service of India, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), with the primary objective of killing the Chinese engineers with the destruction of the expensive maritime surveillance aircraft of the Pakistan Navy being the secondary objective,” said the sources. “The final goal of such a daring assault was to give an impression to the international community that Pakistan was a highly fragile country vis-‡-vis its internal security,” they commented.
The sources said the impression being created by some anti-Pakistan quarters that the security institutions of the country have failed is completely baseless, misleading and concocted because the Chinese engineers, who were the real target of the terrorists, were successfully evacuated from the base safe and sound amid intense firing.
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