A Navy tribunal has sentenced five officers to death in the Karachi Naval Dockyard attack case.
The five officers were charged with having links with the militant group called Islamic State, mutiny, hatching a conspiracy and carrying weapons in the dockyard.
A retired Major Saeed Ahmed told channel in an interview that in a trial his son, Sub-Lieutenant Hammad Ahmed, and four other naval officers had been convicted of the naval dockyard attack that took place on Defence Day around two years ago.
However, according to media reports, the attackers were purportedly planning to hijack the warship PNS Zulfiqar to use it in an attack on one of the US navy’s refuel ships.
Two militants were killed and four others were apprehended by security personnel.
