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Monday, May 30, 2011

PNS Mehran attack: Ex-Pak Navy commander arrested

Pakistan’s security agencies on Monday arrested a former Pakistan Navy commander and his brother for alleged involvement in last week’s terror attack on naval-cum-air force base PNS Mehran in Karachi.

According to The Dawn, former Navy commander Kamran Malik and his brother Zaman Malik were arrested in Lahore.

They have been identified by PNS Mehran case suspects arrested earlier from Faisalabad and Karachi.

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had carried out the attack on May 22, which killed 18 military personnel and wounded 16.

According to the US and Western intelligence sources, the attack was far more dangerous than the 2009 Pakistan Army General Headquarters attack, and was better planned and more rehearsed than the previous attacks. ANI