New Delhi: Amid increasing tensions at the Line of Control, prominent Pakistani journalist Moeed Pirzada Tuesday tweeted a video of a Pakistan Navy ship with a false suggestion that it intercepted and rammed into an Indian Navy vessel in the Arabian Sea.
The video shared by Pirzada, known to be close to the Pakistani military establishment, has got over 50,000 views on the microblogging site.
Pakistan Navy intercepts and rams Indian ship in Arabian Sea? pic.twitter.com/nkNHnV7aw2
— Moeed Pirzada (@MoeedNj) April 13, 2020
The Pakistani journalist’s video actually refers to an incident from 2011. Also, it was shot from the Indian Navy’s INS Godavari, a guided missile frigate that was the first Indian warship to be indigenously designed and built in the 1980s.
The video shows Pakistan Navy ship Babar (D-182) brushing against the Indian vessel and causing damage to the helicopter nets. The Pakistani vessel was decommissioned in 2015.
While Pakistan had blamed the Indian ship for putting its crew in danger, the video shows it was the PNS Babar’s mistake that caused the incident. PNS Babar was commanded by Captain Azhar Naeem, who had served in Pakistan’s intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, earlier.
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Diplomatic row in 2011
A huge diplomatic row broke out between India and Pakistan after the 2011 incident, which took place after both the ships were sent to the Gulf of Aden region in the wake of increased piracy.
PNS Babur was escorting Egyptian merchant vessel MV Suez, which had been released several months after being held hostage by Somali pirates. The sailors on board included Indians.
The Indian ship was sent to reassure sailors on board the merchant vessel and those taken hostage by the pirates.
After the standoff between India and Pakistani Naval ships, then defence minister A.K. Antony had informed Parliament in August 2011 about the incident.
“While carrying out anti-piracy patrol, INS Godavari on coming close to MV Suez, which had earlier been hijacked, tried to establish communication to ascertain safety of crew,” the minister had said.
“…PNS Babur closed INS Godavari at high speed from astern and carried out a manoeuvre in gross violation of relevant regulations on navigational safety and in the process touched Godavari, thereby marginally damaging the extended safety net on the helicopter deck,” Antony added.
The then Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Nirmal Verma had said a protest was lodged with Pakistan over this. The Ministry of Defence later summoned the naval adviser of the Pakistan High Commission and conveyed India’s concerns to him.
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Indin wale gaali dete hain Pak ko Pak wale india ko asal me jo sach h usse koi dekhna hi nhi chahta. Jab billi ke darr se Kabootar aankh band kar leta h ke andhera ho gaya ab billi ko main nhi dikhunga
Indin wale gaali dete hain Pak ko Pak wale india ko asal me jo sach h usse koi dekhna hi nhi chahta. Jab billi ke darr se Kabootar aankh band kar leta h ke andhera ho gaya ab billi ko main nhi dikhunga
If this is a terrorism, then what about what indian govt. Doing there in Kashmir
Modi hota to ab tak babur dub gya hota. Bloody congress
I hate this shitty news agency called the print…Anti india.
What Abhijit says is 100 percent correct. As is well known it takes MEN to handle matters. The only MAN that Congress had was Indira Gandhi. Just because one wears pants it does not make the person a MAN.
These people of Pakistani were bull shit ….. They never change , if Pakistan was not there, I would say india would be so peaceful , supporting all countries in the world , anyway India always look for peace and the Pakistan look for wars and terrorism in the world , that’s why there is no development in Pakistan and forever there will be no developed in future I would say it 100% and India will develop for ever will stand in top of the world with peace
LOL India look for peace what a shitty statement
What a miscue??
This sort of an incident can only happen when the Pakistanis know that there is a subservient and inherently weak Congress Government in power in New Delhi, one that had made itself the laughing stock of the Pakistanis !!! See their laughter and exuberant attitude, and there is nothing else to be mentioned !! Pakistani Navy broke all naval and maritime protocol blatantly, and all the weak Indian Defence Minister Mr A. K. Anthony could do was to go crying into parliament, and complain to the world, see what they have done !! What if the Pakistanis knew that Indian Navy will fire back, or take any offensive action? Would this situation ever happen to a US Navy ship anywhere in the world, or the Israeli Navy? US Navy shot down an Iran Air jetliner near these waters, because they came too close, and the US Navy could not identify the plane correctly !!! Sad incident, but it goes on to prove that these countries can take offensive action, and not be seen as the laughing stock of the world !! In this video, it is not the Pakistanis to be blamed, it is inherent Indian weakness at play, and the Pakistanis know they can go away scot-free, with the Great WEAK Indian Establishment registering only a murmur of protest !! Shame to us Indians for allowing this to happen!!!!
Sir, it has happened when the merchant ship was retrived from somali pirates, if we shoot them, then they shoot then what happened the merchant ship, our ship and their ship will be collapsed, now only small damage to our ship, no casualties