Less than 48 hours after the Coast Guard destroyed a boat it suspected was ferrying explosives and terrorists from Pakistan into Indian waters, new evidence has begun to emerge that the victims of the operation might have been small-time liquor and diesel smugglers, ferrying bootleg cargo from the port of Gwadar to other fishing boats which were to have carried it into Karachi’s Keti Bandar harbour. There is also a suggestion of use of disproportionate force since the fishing boat did not have an engine capable of outrunning Indian interceptors. In a press release, the Ministry of Defence said that “as per the intelligence inputs received on 31st December, a fishing boat from Keti Bunder near Karachi was planning some illicit transaction in Arabian Sea”. Highly-placed government sources, however, said the intelligence had no link to terrorism, and made no reference to any threat to India. Instead, the sources said, the National Technical Research Organisation had intercepted mobile phone traffic involving small-time smugglers operating out of the fishing port of Keti Bandar, near Karachi. - See more at: indianexpress/article/india/india-others/little-evidence-of-terror-link-may-have-been-petty-smugglers/#sthash.n80mp59i.dpuf indianexpress/article/india/india-others/little-evidence-of-terror-link-may-have-been-petty-smugglers/
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 05:00:35 +0000
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