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Naval Today said:
Pakistan Navy’s new Fast Attack Craft PNS Dehshat was commissioned at Karachi Shipyard and Engineering Works Ltd on June 12, 2014.

Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Mohammad Asif Sandila, said: “Karachi Shipyard today stands completely revitalized and reporting its financial turn around. This success was only possible due to reposing confidence and trust in KS&EW, their hard work and selfless devotion. Construction of PNS Dehshat is a major step towards augmenting our potential in the field of Defence Production.”

“To the Fleet Command, I may say that you are getting a ship well built and well tested that you may deploy as per aspirations of Pakistan Navy and the nation.”

The vessel was built under the Transfer of Technology (ToT) arrangement and is a 63 meter long Fast Attack Craft equipped with state of the art weapons and sensors including surface to surface missiles. It will be able to undertake anti-air and search and rescue operations.

The ceremony was attended by representatives of China Shipbuilding & Offshore Company (CSOC), Diplomats and other high ranking officials from GoP, Pakistan Navy and KS&EW.

These are decent, well armed Fast Attack craft and include eight C-802 ASMs, a dual-barrell 23mm autocannon, and an AK-630 CIWS.

The first was built in China, this one in POAkistan, and at least two more are planned to be built in Pakistan as well. More pictures.


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From my Pakistan Navy,
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asif iqbal

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Very good addition to the Pakistan Navy and good see steady production by KSEW who have built under ToT other fast attack craft, tugs and pullers, Agosta 90B SSK, F22P frigate, Azmat Class and now are building a 17,000 ton replenishment tanker for the PN under Turkish ToT

I hope we can build another two Azmat Class and add another replenishment tanker in addition to 6 x SSK and 4 x FFG

Steel has been cut and this is the unit under construction



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Ceremony big thanks to China and Turkey for keeping Pakistan in a league otherwise it would not be able to match

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JayBird

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A game changer technology was deployed with the American aircraft carrier or the Pakistan frigate at a Karachi port that can fool human eyes into seeing a much smaller frigate as a super carrier. How could the New Al Qaeda India branch possibly mistaken a Pakistan frigate as an American aircraft carrier? The Al Qaedas are hopelessly ignorant or maybe it was their intended target all along. I can at least understand if it was the Japanese Izumo-class destroyer they mistaken as the USN carrier. Any Pak members can share which of their frigate looks like a aircraft carrier? :p
 

asif iqbal

Lieutenant General
A frigate looking like a carrier?? Don't know anything about that but the attack was stopped by Pakistani naval marines and no equipment was lost or damaged

Go Pakistan navy!

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asif iqbal

Lieutenant General
When trouble comes knocking there is only two country's who stand shoulder to shoulder with Pakistan independent of their foreign policy's one is Turkey and one is China both provided help in the hour of need countless times

All 46 x MLU F16 have been delivered to PAF by Turkey thanks TAI

All 50 x JF-7 Block I have been delivered to PAF by China's help thanks China

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Jeff Head

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Here a different perspective on the attack on the Naval Base in Karachi on September 6th. Apparently, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) took credit for the attack, which sounds credible to me, since they are the same people who attacked the Pakistani Air Base in May 2011. In any case, Pakistani Marines and special Forces put this one down rapidly.

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Dawn said:
KARACHI: While the Navy continues to remain tight-lipped about the attack on its dockyard in West Wharf on Sept 6, having issued a bare-bones statement 48 hours after the incident, further details have been obtained by Dawn that reveal the extent of radicalisation within the Navy.

According to informed sources, the attack was carried out entirely by serving Navy personnel, along with Owais Jakharani, a former Navy cadet who could have been given access inside without too much trouble.

“It seems the intention was to hijack PNS Zulfiqar [a frigate purchased from China and inducted in July 2009],” said one of these sources. “The group of would-be hijackers, led by a senior officer, was even saluted by the guard at the bottom of the gangway, before another became suspicious of their intentions and alerted other personnel.”

Naval commandos of PNS Iqbal rushed to the scene and a gunbattle ensued. One naval officer was killed and seven others were injured. Two or three of the attackers were shot dead, one of them being Jakharani, who the police claimed had drowned. Four attackers who had taken refuge in one of the ship’s compartments were locked in and later captured.

According to another source, no fewer than 17 more individuals — all Navy personnel, including the three arrested from Mastung in Balochistan while reportedly trying to make their way to Afghanistan — have been rounded up based on information extracted from those apprehended. It is believed the suspects are currently being interrogated at one of the military’s interrogation centres.

Also, while Commander Kamran Asif told Associated Press that the militants were armed with rocket launchers, assault rifles and hand-grenades, Dawn has been given information that the weapons had already been smuggled into the dockyard and had been stored in lockers by the rogue personnel.

There has been considerable speculation on whether the attackers arrived at the dockyard by sea or took the West Wharf road that leads to the site. According to a fisheries worker, when fishermen make their way back into the harbour from the open sea, four to five Navy patrol boats carrying heavily armed personnel check their vessels when they pass the dockyard. But as it turns out, neither the sea nor the land route was needed for entry for all but one of the attackers.

The Navy, it seems, was keen to keep the entire incident under wraps from the outset. According to the SHO Dockyards, Sajjad Mangi, he rushed with his team to the naval dockyard at around 9am that day when he received information of firing on the premises of the highly sensitive location.

“We found the area cordoned off by security personnel,” said the SHO, adding that he heard the firing continue for 10 to15 minutes. “They told us it was part of Defence Day celebrations and there was nothing to be alarmed about.”

When Mr Mangi requested to speak to a senior officer, he was put in touch with Commander Mohabbat Khan on the phone who also told him that the firing was nothing out of the ordinary, and there was no need of any assistance from police. Meanwhile, his senior SP Altaf Leghari, whom he had informed, also arrived on the scene. Following the assurance from the commander, they returned with the police force.

After news of the attack broke, city police chief Ghulam Qadir Thebo said the body of Owais Jakharani, a former sailor who quit the Navy a few months ago — some say he was expelled — had been recovered from the sea and that initial investigations suggested that the young man was one of the attackers and, in the absence of bullet wounds, appeared to have drowned. Given that no FIR of this incident has been registered, how could any investigation have even begun?

Incidentally, registering a first information report is mandatory when any crime occurs, even on the premises of a military facility. The fact that it was not registered in this case indicates the lengths to which the Navy — a 31,000-man branch of the military – has gone to keep the investigation in its sole control without sharing on the record information with civilian agencies as it is bound by law to do so.

According to actual events pieced through information provided only on condition of anonymity by several highly placed and credible sources, a very interesting story has emerged.

As per sources in police, on Sept 8, “an unnamed body was handed to us and it was in several pieces”. They said they delivered the dismembered corpse to the Edhi morgue at 5.30pm as an unclaimed body the same day.

This was confirmed by the spokesman for Edhi Foundation, Anwar Kazmi, who said the body parts were collected by Mr Jakharani’s family the next day at 11.30am.

Security experts say the deliberate media blackout on the incident for two days was understandable.

“It was also possible because the attack occurred deep inside an area that is not easily accessible unlike, for instance, the attack on the Mehran naval aviation station [in May 2011],” said Ahmed Chinoy, chief of the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee, “The Navy may have got some solid leads from the four militants they captured and wanted to follow up on them.”

The uncharacteristically late claim of responsibility for the attack that emerged from TTP spokesman Shahidullah Shahid on the day following the Navy’s statement adds another interesting dimension to the incident.

He declared that the militants were successful in penetrating the security cordon because of inside help and that TTP would continue targeting security forces.

The reason for the delayed claim may well be that those in direct contact with the TTP were either killed or captured at the dockyards immediately following the incident.

“I think the collaborators outside didn’t know themselves how things had turned out, whether the attackers had all been massacred or not,” said Mr Chinoy. “It would also have been very difficult for them to access any information, given the tight security in the area following the incident.”

One of many naval facilities in the area, the Navy dockyard occupies less than 80 acres, and is located at the end of West Wharf Road.

It is about four kilometres from the mouth of Karachi harbour.

The whole operation was so swift that some residents of Baba and Bhit islands barely half a kilometre from the site said that they neither saw nor heard anything out of the ordinary that day.

This is the latest attack on a branch of the military that has been a repeated target of militant assaults, including two attacks on Navy buses in April 2011, the Mehran naval base attack the month after, and a number of targeted killings of naval officers in Karachi.

The Mehran assault lasted 18 hours, killed 10 people and destroyed/damaged several multi-million dollar surveillance aircraft.

As always, though it was conceded that the attackers had inside help, credible findings of the inquiry report are yet to be made public.

The same opacity and determination to keep itself above the law has been demonstrated across various branches of the military time and again — whether it is the matter of forcibly disappeared people, or the catastrophic failure of intelligence in the Bin Laden affair.

What is needed is lot more openness, accountability and better screening techniques in the military, as well as an acknowledgement that the people of Pakistan are partners in the fight against terrorism, rather than adversaries to be kept at bay.
 

JayBird

Junior Member
Here a different perspective on the attack on the Naval Base in Karachi on September 6th. Apparently, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) took credit for the attack, which sounds credible to me, since they are the same people who attacked the Pakistani Air Base in May 2011. In any case, Pakistani Marines and special Forces put this one down rapidly.

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This new perspective from Jeff's posted article is a lot more plausible than the other version of story for sure going by the history of the TTP. I almost put the other article in the " What the heck news" section. :D
 

bd popeye

The Last Jedi
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Another report on the PNS Zulfiqar incident. This one claims the ship was actually hijacked.

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By Maria Golovnina

The SITE monitoring service quoted its spokesman, Usama Mahmoud, as saying a group of militants had succeeded in seizing control of the Pakistani frigate PNS Zulfiqar and tried to use it to attack nearby U.S. vessels.

"These mujahideen had taken control of the Pakistani ship, and they were advancing towards the American fleet when the Pakistani army stopped them," he said.

"As a result, the mujahideen, the lions of Allah and benefactors of the Ummah, sacrificed their lives for Allah, and the Pakistani soldiers spoiled their hereafter by giving up their lives in defense of the enemies of the Ummah the Americans."

SITE said Mahmoud's statement also provided a picture and a detailed layout of the PNS Zulfiqar.

The navy and the army's press wing were not immediately available for comment.

The naval yard on Pakistan's Arabian Sea coast is a strategically important facility at the center of U.S.-Pakistani security, anti-terrorism and anti-trafficking cooperation.

The foiled attack comes at a time when regional powers are already concerned about stability as U.S.-led forces continue to withdraw from neighboring Afghanistan, potentially creating a security gap for insurgents to exploit.

The attack, which lasted several hours, also shows just how much the Islamist militants are capable of striking at the heart of Pakistan's vast security apparatus and raises questions about the nuclear-armed nation's ability to guard its installations.

The Pakistani Taliban, closely allied with al Qaeda, had earlier said that the Sept. 6 attack was carried out with the help of insiders. Pakistan later arrested a number of navy personnel on suspicion of collaborating with the attackers.

Al Qaeda announced the formation of the new group on Sept. 4, with its chief, Ayman al-Zawahri, promising to spread Islamic rule and "raise the flag of jihad" across South Asia, home to more than 400 million Muslims.

Analysts say the move is part of al Qaeda's plan to take advantage of the planned withdrawal of U.S.-led forces from Afghanistan and boost its influence in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region as well as India.

It also comes against the backdrop of a full-scale operation launched by Pakistan's military against Taliban militants in the lawless region of North Waziristan following a deadly attack on the airport in the city of Karachi in June.

(Editing by Nick Macfie)
 
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