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Egyptian merchant vessel Suez facing another problem, after being released by the Somali pirates; floating at the waves of ocean the ship has consumed...

At least four Pakistani hostages among other 22 kept in captivity of Somali pirates were released on Monday after payment of huge ransom and...

Somali pirates have released the Kuwaiti crude oil tanker Zirku, held since late March, along with its 29 crew members, including 17 Pakistanis, after...

Social activists Ansar Burney has said that the release of all the hostages would be secured from Somali pirates by June 2. Talking to a...

At two hours and 16 minutes, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ — the fourth film in the ridiculously successful Disney franchise —...

Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan hopes that the four Pakistani crew members being held captive by Somali pirates would be back home soon....

ISLAMABAD/MOGADISHU - Sixteen Pakistanis and two Iranians have been freed from Somali pirates after the Danish Navy carried out an air-raid operation to rescue the hostages, in custody of Somali pirates since last year. On April 2, the Danish Navy's rescue team was attacked by the pirates after which the rescue team responded through fire and overcame the pirate crew. The team boarded the vessel off Somalia's coast targeting an Iranian fishing boat that the pirates had used as a

ABU DHABI - United Arab Emirates' special forces on Saturday freed an Abu Dhabi-owned ship seized by pirates east of Oman in the Arabian Sea, a military official told state news agency WAM. "A special counter-terrorism unit, backed by air force units and in coordination with the (Bahrain-based) US Fifth Fleet, stormed the ship. The hijackers subsequently surrendered," the official said. The UAE had said earlier that the special forces had moved to free the MV Arrilah-I which was

Johnny Depp's tour guide on his 'Pirates of the Caribbean' voyages is plotting the course for a fifth installment even before the fourth movie sails into theaters. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer says he has a screenplay in the works for a fifth 'Pirates' tale after May's 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' comes out.
Based on the Disney theme-park ride, the original three 'Pirates' blockbusters ended up as a trilogy continuing the same key characters and story line.

BRUSSELS - Pirates armed with rocket-propelled grenades on Monday hijacked a Kuwaiti oil tanker carrying 29 sailors including 17 Pakistanis southeast of Oman, the European Union's naval forces said.
The Zirku crude oil tanker was seized some 250 nautical miles southeast of the Omani port of Salalah at around 0900 GMT, the EU Navfor anti-piracy mission said in a statement.

ISLAMABAD - The senate body on Interior Saturday appealed to United Nation (UN) to play its role for the release of Pakistanis and other crew members taken as hostage by Somali pirates after hijacking three ships from the coast of Somalia. The Senate Standing committee that met with Senator Talha Mahmood in the chair directed Pakistani Foreign Office to pressurize the countries concerned for the release of 11 Pakistani hostages. Special Foreign Secretary Muhammad Haroon Shoukat told