The audacity of a bloody attack inside one of the most heavily secured naval facilities in Pakistan was jarring enough. Eventually all of them were killed, the last one blowing himself up after he was cornered. Hearing the commotion, navy commandos from another vessel rushed to the scene, but it still took several hours to regain control of the ship from the four rogue officers already on board. While the attackers fired automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades, the sailor shredded the dingy with an anti-aircraft gun, killing all six. When he challenged the group in the dinghy, a gunfight quickly erupted. The men in the dinghy were armed with AK-47s - not the standard weapons used by Pakistani marines. Together they hoped to hijack the ship and use it to attack a US Navy patrol in the Indian Ocean.īut an alert sailor on board the frigate noticed something was wrong. Once on board, their plan was to join up with another group of six militants disguised in marine uniforms who were approaching the Zulfiqar in an inflatable dinghy. A guard inspected their ID badges and saluted. It was here, during the quiet predawn of May 6, 2014, that four rogue naval officers walked up the gangway of the PNS Zulfiqar, a 4,000-ton frigate that was preparing to put to sea. KARACHI, Pakistan - The Karachi Naval Dockyard, home port and strategic nerve center for Pakistan’s fleet, sits on a sliver of land bracketed between Port Grand, a “family fun” pier that features kiddie rides and a panoramic view of warships at anchor, and Machar Colony, a sprawling slum where cattle graze on garbage and a million human inhabitants live in nearly unimaginable squalor.
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