Anglo-Indian involved in PNS Mehran attack: DNA report
According to DNA test, all the attackers were Anglo-Indian and had a close relation with each other.
Police sources told the Dunya News, two separate samples of all the four accused had been sent for DNA test to identify their nationality. The sources said that according to the report, the accused were either brothers or cousins.
At least 10 navy and two rangers personnel were killed while 14 security officials were wounded in the terrorist attack on PNS Mehran on May 22.
The insurgents also destroyed two US-supplied surveillance aircraft.
http://www.dunyanews.tv/index.php?key=Q2F0SUQ9MiNOaWQ9Mjg1NTM=
Anglo-Indians are people who have mixed Indian and British ancestry or people of British descent born or living in India, now mainly historical in the latter sense.[7][8] The British residents in India used the term "Eurasians" for people of mixed European and Indian descent (cf. George Orwell's Burmese Days).
The Anglo-Indian community in its modern sense is a distinct, small minority community originating in India. They consist of people from mixed British and Indian ancestry whose native language is English. An Anglo-Indian's British ancestry was usually bequeathed paternally.
Article 366(2) of the Indian Constitution defines Anglo-Indian as "a person whose father or any of whose other male progenitors in the male line is or was of European descent but who is domiciled within the territory of India and is or was born within such territory of parents habitually resident therein and not established there for temporary purposes only".[9][10] This definition extends "Anglo-Indian" to include Indians of purely European (male) ancestry.
This definition also embraces the descendants of the Indians from the old Portuguese colonies of both the Coromandel and Malabar Coasts, who joined the East India Company as mercenaries and brought their families with them.[11] Similarly the definition includes mestios (mixed Portuguese and Indian) of Goa and people of Indo-French, and Indo-Dutch descent.[12]
Anglo-Indians formed a significant portion of the minority community in India before independence, but today more live outside India than within it. The Anglo-Indian population in India dwindled from roughly 500,000 in 1947 to fewer than 150,000 by 2010. Many emigrated to the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and the United States.[13]
Anglo-IndiansTotal population~800,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
India80,000 - 125,000[2][3]
United Kingdom~80,000[4]
Myanmar19,200[3]
Australia22,000
Canada22,000
Pakistan~11,000[5]
South Africa
United States
New Zealand
LanguagesEnglish[3]
ReligionProtestantism (predominantly Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist),[6] Roman Catholic minority
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Indian
PNS base attackers were foreigners, reveals DNA report
Updated on: Saturday, June 18, 2011 810 PM Share |
Staff Report
KARACHI: Armed militants, who stormed the PNS Mehran naval base in Karachi on May 22, were foreigners, discloses a DNA report.
According to SAMAA, it has been decided that DNA samples will also be provided to FBI to establish the real identity of the attackers.
The base attack raised many questions regarding security of key security installations in the country. Owing to the organized militants’ attack, it was being feared that that someone from inside could have leaked information.
In this regard, former naval commando Kamran Ahmed and several other suspects were arrested form Lahore.
The probe teams also sought reports about air force and naval officials, who were on leave for more than one month.
However, investigation took a new turn when police received the DNA test report.
The report shows that terrorists were foreigners, not Pakistanis. NADRA has maintained it has no record of the attackers. SAMAA
According to DNA test, all the attackers were Anglo-Indian and had a close relation with each other.
Police sources told the Dunya News, two separate samples of all the four accused had been sent for DNA test to identify their nationality. The sources said that according to the report, the accused were either brothers or cousins.
At least 10 navy and two rangers personnel were killed while 14 security officials were wounded in the terrorist attack on PNS Mehran on May 22.
The insurgents also destroyed two US-supplied surveillance aircraft.
http://www.dunyanews.tv/index.php?key=Q2F0SUQ9MiNOaWQ9Mjg1NTM=
Anglo-Indians are people who have mixed Indian and British ancestry or people of British descent born or living in India, now mainly historical in the latter sense.[7][8] The British residents in India used the term "Eurasians" for people of mixed European and Indian descent (cf. George Orwell's Burmese Days).
The Anglo-Indian community in its modern sense is a distinct, small minority community originating in India. They consist of people from mixed British and Indian ancestry whose native language is English. An Anglo-Indian's British ancestry was usually bequeathed paternally.
Article 366(2) of the Indian Constitution defines Anglo-Indian as "a person whose father or any of whose other male progenitors in the male line is or was of European descent but who is domiciled within the territory of India and is or was born within such territory of parents habitually resident therein and not established there for temporary purposes only".[9][10] This definition extends "Anglo-Indian" to include Indians of purely European (male) ancestry.
This definition also embraces the descendants of the Indians from the old Portuguese colonies of both the Coromandel and Malabar Coasts, who joined the East India Company as mercenaries and brought their families with them.[11] Similarly the definition includes mestios (mixed Portuguese and Indian) of Goa and people of Indo-French, and Indo-Dutch descent.[12]
Anglo-Indians formed a significant portion of the minority community in India before independence, but today more live outside India than within it. The Anglo-Indian population in India dwindled from roughly 500,000 in 1947 to fewer than 150,000 by 2010. Many emigrated to the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and the United States.[13]
Anglo-IndiansTotal population~800,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
LanguagesEnglish[3]
ReligionProtestantism (predominantly Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist),[6] Roman Catholic minority
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Indian
PNS base attackers were foreigners, reveals DNA report
Updated on: Saturday, June 18, 2011 810 PM Share |
KARACHI: Armed militants, who stormed the PNS Mehran naval base in Karachi on May 22, were foreigners, discloses a DNA report.
According to SAMAA, it has been decided that DNA samples will also be provided to FBI to establish the real identity of the attackers.
The base attack raised many questions regarding security of key security installations in the country. Owing to the organized militants’ attack, it was being feared that that someone from inside could have leaked information.
In this regard, former naval commando Kamran Ahmed and several other suspects were arrested form Lahore.
The probe teams also sought reports about air force and naval officials, who were on leave for more than one month.
However, investigation took a new turn when police received the DNA test report.
The report shows that terrorists were foreigners, not Pakistanis. NADRA has maintained it has no record of the attackers. SAMAA
