Pakistan Probes Reported Hijacking of Oil Tanker With Pakistani Crew Near Somalia

Maritime Affairs Minister Junaid Anwar Chaudhry ordered an inquiry into the reported pirate seizure of a tanker with Pakistani crew off the Somali coast. The angle: Gulf-of-Aden piracy never disappeared — it retreated while navies deployed during the Red Sea Houthi campaign, and is resurging as those assets are pulled to the Iranian theater. Lead with the crew (labour from Karachi and Gwadar on foreign-flagged vessels bear the frontline cost of every maritime conflict) and then the broader pattern: the security dividend of Combined Task Force 151 is visibly eroding.