DNA test result revealed that four terrorists who attacked PNS Mehran base in Karachi were foreigners, officials said on Saturday. According to police, DNA test report received on Saturday which showed that the attackers were not Pakistani nationals.
The report disclosed that two of them belong to same country while nationality of other two has not been confirmed so far. Those terrorists were Anglo-Indians and have blood relations, could be cousins, the report said. Police said two samples were taken for DNA, one to know their nationality while other for identification of their families.
These samples were matched with NADRA database which revealed that these terrorists were not Pakistani. The tests were conducted in Islamabad Genetic Laboratory and its report would be provided to the investigative commissions which are probing into the incident. A group of heavily armed militants stormed the PNS Mehran airbase in Karachi on May 22 and killed 11 security personnel and destroyed two US supplied strategic surveillance P-3C Orion aircrafts.