Five Pakistan naval officers sentenced to death over terrorism charges

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has sentenced to death five naval officers for their involvement in a deadly attack on a Karachi dockyard in 2014, the father of one of the men

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has sentenced to death five naval officers for their involvement in a deadly attack on a Karachi dockyard in 2014, the father of one of the men and their lawyer said on Tuesday. The September 2014 attack on the Pakistan Navy Shipyard (PNS) Zulfiqar left one Pakistani officer and three attackers dead, while seven sailors were wounded. Reports in Pakistan’s Dawn and the Wall Street Journal later said the militants wanted to hijack a frigate in order to attack US Navy patrol vessels in the northwest Indian Ocean.

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