The Pakistan Navy on Wednesday saved nine crew members of an Indian vessel after it drowned in the Arabian Sea near Gwadar, according to the Director-General Public Relations.
The boat videlicet “ Jamna Sagar ” sunk with 10 crew members aboard on Tuesday(August 9), the cortege prophet said in a statement, available with Dawn.com.
“ The cortege incontinently responded to the torture call and the Pakistan Maritime Information Centre requested a near trafficker boat ‘ MT KRUIBEKE ’ to give necessary backing to the stranded crew of the drowning sailing vessel, ” the spokesperson said.
“ The trafficker boat ultimately recovered nine crew members and uninterrupted passage to its coming harborage Dubai and onward disembarked the crew. ”
Independently, the statement said that one Pakistan Navy boat, along with two copters, reached the area and located the dead body of one crew member who had gone missing when the vessel drowned.
His body was recovered and handed over to Pakistan Maritime Security Agency(PMSA) authorities for further proceedings, it added.
BAefore this time, the Pakistan Navy had interdicted and tracked an Indian submarine.
In a statement, Inter-Services Public Relations(ISPR) Director General Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar said that the Indian Navy had stationed its submarine against Pakistan with “ ulterior motives ”.
“ Still, yet again through nonstop alert and professionalism, Pakistan Navy has baffled(the) Indian submarine’s attempt of entering into Pakistani waters, ” he’d said.
The area of Pakistan’s territorial waters is 12 navigational long hauls while its seabed home(EEZ) grew to,000 square kilometers in 2015.
