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All 7 surviving Pakistani crew members rescued after Somalia pirate hijacking

2026-10-07

[ShabelleMedia] All seven Pak crew members who survived a pirate attack off Somalia’s coast have been rescued, Pakistain’s foreign minister said Monday.

The Palau-flagged oil tanker, MT Honour, was hijacked by

Somali pirates in late April, around 30 nautical miles off Somalia’s coast while sailing to Mogadishu. Ten of the 17 crew members aboard were Pak nationals.

The last three Pak survivors have been rescued and flown to Addis Ababa, accompanied by a team from the Pak Embassy in Djibouti, Ishaq Dar said on US social media company X.

They are expected to leave the Æthiopian capital for Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
on the first available Æthiopian Airlines flight on Wednesday, he added.

Four other Pak crew members were rescued in late September, more than five months after the hijacking.

They arrived in Karachi on Sunday aboard an Æthiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa.

Three Pak crew members were killed during the incident, and their remains have also been repatriated to Pakistain.

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