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India foils terror op
After getting a bloody nose on the land boundary where Indian soldiers forced Pakistani troops to show the white flag, emboldened by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar\'s instructions to respond to Pakistan’s unprovoked firing with \'double the force\', Pakistan has now been made to swallow a humble pie in the high seas.
Pak boat carrying explosives blows up near Gujarat
New Delhi: After getting a bloody nose on the land boundary where Indian soldiers forced Pakistani troops to show the white flag, emboldened by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar's instructions to respond to Pakistan’s unprovoked firing with 'double the force', Pakistan has now been made to swallow a humble pie in the high seas.
An explosives-laden Pakistani trawler blew itself up late on December 31 night after being intercepted by the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) in the Arabian Sea off Porbandar, Gujarat. All four people on board the vessel from near the Pakistani port city of Karachi are believed to have been killed in the dramatic episode, according to the Defence Ministry.
The suspicious behaviour of the boat's crew brought back memories of the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai six years ago. Then, 10 gunmen had travelled from Karachi in a boat, hijacked an Indian fishing vessel and steered it to Mumbai to go on a three-day rampage during which they killed 166 people.
A defence ministry official said the trawler stopped only after the ICG fired shots, but the crew had by then set it on fire, triggering a major explosion that sank the vessel. Neither the boat nor its crew could be "recovered" due to rough weather. The ICG ruled out the explosion being an accident, saying the men on the boat sped away because they were hiding "something really serious". "If they weren't doing anything wrong, then they had no reason to run, to set the boat on fire. Why would anyone set (themselves) on fire?" said KR Nautiyal, deputy inspector general of the ICG.
