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The Pakistan Navy has laid the responsibility of the PNS Mehran attack on the Pakistan Air Force, a private TV channel reported.
In a press briefing on Monday, the Navy officials said the militants entered the PNS Mehran from the area controlled by the PAF and it was the PAFs responsibility to guard the area. They said the real target of the militants were two PC-3 Orion aircrafts parked at the base. They said 11 Chinese and six US citizens were present at the base but all of them were evacuated in a bullet-proof vehicle.
Last week, the PNS Base Mehran was attacked by terrorists who battled with security men for almost 18 hours. Four out of six terrorists who had set on fire an Orion P-3 plane were gunned down while the other two managed to flee from the scene. At leas 10 security men embraced martyrdom in the incident, officials confirmed.
Agencies add: Pakistani Intelligence agencies arrested three persons including a former SSG commando Kamran Malik along with his brother in connection with PNS Mehran attack from Gulberg area, Lahore, on Monday.
According to sources, intelligences agencies raided the Kamrans house wherein he, his brother Zaman Malik and his friend were arrested. They were shifted to some undisclosed place for interrogation.
The sources said the former SSG commando was trailed under court martial on the charges of torture and misbehaviour with his officer due to which he was dismissed from the service.
The accused commandos father Sadaruddin told the media persons that some people in a tinted-glass car came to their house four days ago and took away his two sons.
He said he had informed the SSP and the SHO of the concerned police station who had assured him the recovery of his sons. But even after four days he had not been informed about his sons whereabouts, he complained.
The father said his son, Kamran Malik, was a prize bonds dealer and he did not go to Karachi. His other son, Zaman Malik, was an agent of a Sui gas department. He said his sons were not involved in any suspicious activity.
They have been detained in connection with the naval base attack and are under interrogation, one intelligence official said without giving details.
Imran Ahmed, another brother who was not arrested, told Reuters the two persons were taken away by intelligence officials on Friday. He gave no details.Local people also told the media persons that the accused were not seen involved in any suspicious activity rather they were respectable persons of the area.
Meanwhile, the investigation regarding PNS Mehran attack is underway and all employees of the PNS Mehran base would be probed in this regard, sources said.
The investigation team recorded telephone records of some officials of the PNS Mehran base who would be produced before the investigation team for recording their statements, the sources added.
Meanwhile, the scope of probe into attack on Mehran Base has been extended to Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (KPK) and tribal areas.
Intelligence agencies arrested four suspected persons from the KPK and tribal areas and shifted them to Karachi for investigations.
Reliable sources told that the lists were being worked out regarding owners of containers, their drivers and the traders from whom goods stolen from the NATO containers had been recovered.
The sources disclosed that the law enforcement agencies had informed the government about possible utilisation of goods in terror activities which were stolen from the NATO containers.
The law enforcement agencies had arrested four suspected terrorists from KPK and tribal areas after successful operations. They have been shifted to Peshawar by a private airline under stringent security measures.
The Pakistan Navy has laid the responsibility of the PNS Mehran attack on the Pakistan Air Force, a private TV channel reported.
In a press briefing on Monday, the Navy officials said the militants entered the PNS Mehran from the area controlled by the PAF and it was the PAFs responsibility to guard the area. They said the real target of the militants were two PC-3 Orion aircrafts parked at the base. They said 11 Chinese and six US citizens were present at the base but all of them were evacuated in a bullet-proof vehicle.
Last week, the PNS Base Mehran was attacked by terrorists who battled with security men for almost 18 hours. Four out of six terrorists who had set on fire an Orion P-3 plane were gunned down while the other two managed to flee from the scene. At leas 10 security men embraced martyrdom in the incident, officials confirmed.
Agencies add: Pakistani Intelligence agencies arrested three persons including a former SSG commando Kamran Malik along with his brother in connection with PNS Mehran attack from Gulberg area, Lahore, on Monday.
According to sources, intelligences agencies raided the Kamrans house wherein he, his brother Zaman Malik and his friend were arrested. They were shifted to some undisclosed place for interrogation.
The sources said the former SSG commando was trailed under court martial on the charges of torture and misbehaviour with his officer due to which he was dismissed from the service.
The accused commandos father Sadaruddin told the media persons that some people in a tinted-glass car came to their house four days ago and took away his two sons.
He said he had informed the SSP and the SHO of the concerned police station who had assured him the recovery of his sons. But even after four days he had not been informed about his sons whereabouts, he complained.
The father said his son, Kamran Malik, was a prize bonds dealer and he did not go to Karachi. His other son, Zaman Malik, was an agent of a Sui gas department. He said his sons were not involved in any suspicious activity.
They have been detained in connection with the naval base attack and are under interrogation, one intelligence official said without giving details.
Imran Ahmed, another brother who was not arrested, told Reuters the two persons were taken away by intelligence officials on Friday. He gave no details.Local people also told the media persons that the accused were not seen involved in any suspicious activity rather they were respectable persons of the area.
Meanwhile, the investigation regarding PNS Mehran attack is underway and all employees of the PNS Mehran base would be probed in this regard, sources said.
The investigation team recorded telephone records of some officials of the PNS Mehran base who would be produced before the investigation team for recording their statements, the sources added.
Meanwhile, the scope of probe into attack on Mehran Base has been extended to Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (KPK) and tribal areas.
Intelligence agencies arrested four suspected persons from the KPK and tribal areas and shifted them to Karachi for investigations.
Reliable sources told that the lists were being worked out regarding owners of containers, their drivers and the traders from whom goods stolen from the NATO containers had been recovered.
The sources disclosed that the law enforcement agencies had informed the government about possible utilisation of goods in terror activities which were stolen from the NATO containers.
The law enforcement agencies had arrested four suspected terrorists from KPK and tribal areas after successful operations. They have been shifted to Peshawar by a private airline under stringent security measures.
