Overview
- Security forces killed three attackers and captured one after a terrorist assault on a Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) camp in Karachi, with Rangers personnel reported martyred and wounded.
- President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif publicly praised the forces' professionalism and blamed externally supported proxy elements for the attack.
- At a naval passing-out parade in Karachi, the prime minister reiterated plans to modernize the Pakistan Navy, cited recent navy operations that protected maritime energy and supply routes, and awarded top cadets.
- Government sources say the prime minister may visit Iran with a delegation and could attend Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral, a developing diplomatic move that would carry regional significance.
- Officials link the recent rise in covert and proxy incidents to a May confrontation between Pakistan and its eastern neighbour, and say the episode is sharpening counterterrorism, maritime security and political responses.