KOLKATA: India detained a Pakistan-bound ship carrying undeclared military hardware, including rocket launchers and anti-aircraft guns, police said on Saturday.
| Given that Pakistan can buy such things on the open market, one wonders whether one of the ISI's pets has decided to to find another source of supply... |
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.
| Liberia and Mauritius seem like unlikely places to load weapons, though perhaps Charles Taylor was having a clearance sale ... |
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. |