Security worry: Battleships moved from Karachi

August 05, 2011 15:57

The Pakistan Navy is keeping its main battleships away from Karachi, and has moved them to another port in Ormara, Balochistan, as security threats continue, sources in the navy tell the Express Tribune.

The navy sent its warships away from its main base in Karachi as a "precautionary measure' after a 16-hour siege of its main naval airbase, PNS Mehran. The commando-style gun and rocket-propelled grenade attacks resulted in the destruction of two P3C Orion airplanes which were key naval assets.

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