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Sunday, June 27, 2010
India detains Pakistan-bound cargo ship carrying weaponsKOLKATA: India detained a Pakistan-bound ship carrying undeclared military hardware, including rocket launchers and anti-aircraft guns, police said on Saturday. The Panama-registered vessel MV Agean Glory sailed from Monrovia, Liberia, to Bangladesh via Mauritius. It then traveled to Calcutta, the police said. The origin of the weapons was not immediately known. The vessel offloaded civilian goods including a car in Kolkata, which also serves as a port for mountainous Nepal, top police official Bhupinder Singh said. Authorities detained the ship on Friday after finding that the clearing agent did not specify that it was carrying weapons – the information given by the ship captain, Singh said. The police were questioning the crew of the ship near Diamond Harbour in the Bay of Bengal, about 50 kilometres south of Calcutta. Other details were not immediately available. ap
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk