The 'Karachi-Gate' Affair

摘要

On May 2002, eleven French submarine engineers and four Pakistanis were killed in a car bomb attack in Karachi next to the Sheraton Hotel, this was blamed on Al-Qaeda terrorists. Not many people remember that the entire New Zealand Cricket team, staying in the Pearl Continental opposite, was about to board a bus to the National Cricket Stadium when the bomb went off. An investigation is underway in France to look the claim by kins of the French victims that this was a revenge attack by disgruntled Pakistani officials angered by the non-payment of promised commissions in the sale of three attack class Agosta 90B submarines meant for the Pakistan Navy.