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Somalian pirates moving towards India: Coast Guard

Somalian pirates have now started moving towards India and the government was investigating if they have any links with Pakistan-based terror groups, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) said.

ICG Director General Anil Chopra said the pirates, now operating eastwards from their country, posed a threat to all the merchant vessels passing through the high seas between India and the Maldives.

"When piracy is (happening) so close to India, there would be speculation about any such linkages (between them and Pakistan-based groups). Intelligence agencies are investigating all the people who are captured to establish if there is connection between them," he told reporters.

The ICG chief was addressing a press conference on the eve of the 34th Coast Guard foundation day.

The 15 Somalians apprehended from a sunken pirate mothership near Lakshadweep on January 28 are also being interrogated by the agencies concerned in Mumbai.

Chopra said due to increased presence of navies from around the world in the Gulf Of Aden, pirates have extended their area of operation and have started moving eastwards.

"The only place from Africa in that direction is India and the most western part of India is Lakshadweep. They don't pose any threat to India in particular but against all merchant ships of all nations," he added.

The ICG chief said to thwart any piracy attempts, the Coast Guard along with the Navy has launched the Operation

Island Watch along the Lakshadweep Islands.

As part of these operations last week, a Naval Fast Attack Craft (FAC) sunk a pirate mothership named 'Prantalay' 75 miles off Lakshadweep saving the 20-member crew of the hijacked vessel on-board and arrested 15 pirates from it.

In the recent past, activities of pirates around Lakshadweep have increased and they were also successful in hijacking a Bangladeshi-flagged merchant vessel about 90 nautical miles off Kochi and 80 nautical miles off Minicoy.

As part of its efforts to counter piracy and enhance coastal security, last month a Coast Guard district headquarters was commissioned in Kavaratti along with a station in Minicoy, both in the Lakshadweep Islands.

Due to this spurt in pirate activity, the Navy had deployed its warships along with Coast Guard vessels in the central Arabian sea.

India has also been deploying its frigates and destroyers in the Gulf of Aden since November 2008 and maintains its presence in the troubled waters since then.

Somalian pirates moving towards India: Coast Guard
 
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Let them come close. IN will have real time weapons exercise then. Good target practice.
 
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When there a$$ was getting kicked in the gulf by in just imagine what will marcos and in will do to them good marcos will get more prectice
 
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After all the Navies of the world have been churning up the waters in the Gulf of Aden and the Somalian Coast, this is inevitable. After the years that the Pirates have run this flourishing "cottage industry" and having earned nearly USD 250 million (as ransoms) in the process, the brigands even have the resources to do so.
The good old International Community has itself to blame for it; for having consistently done too little and too late!?
Policing the 1100 nm stretch between the Horn of Africa to Eight Degree Channel which is the route used by all merchant ships on the Europe-F.E. route is going to be far more difficult and much more expensive.

Let us see how the International Community squares up to the task at hand!
 
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Now this is both good and bad for India , if true...

bad because this poses a threat for our merchant navy vessels..and good because, IN navy will not only get target practice, but it will give it a good and legitimate reason to flex its muscle far and wide in the IOR.
 
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Once again ... shows how india is trying to link Pakistan with every kind of groups trying to threaten world peace.. another pathetic attempt from the Indian side. Maybe these somali pirates are linked to the Naxals and Maoists. ever tried thinking about that?
 
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Now this is both good and bad for India , if true...

bad because this poses a threat for our merchant navy vessels..and good because, IN navy will not only get target practice, but it will give it a good and legitimate reason to flex its muscle far and wide in the IOR.

Only about the underlined part:
The threat to Indian Merchant ships is not so great as most Indian cargo ships head North of Lakshadweep and then move closer to the coast. The threat is far greater to International Shipping which passes between Lakshadweep and Maldives and then onward South of Sri Lanka on the Europe-F.E. route.

The IN and ICG are mandated to provide protection to Indian Shipping but not to the rest of the world, that is optional.
 
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Once again ... shows how india is trying to link Pakistan with every kind of groups trying to threaten world peace.. another pathetic attempt from the Indian side. Maybe these somali pirates are linked to the Naxals and Maoists. ever tried thinking about that?

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