PARIS, Oct 11: With the official admission on Thursday that the French tanker, Limburg, was the victim of a terrorist attack on Oct 6 off Yemen, French personnel working for the Direction de la Construction Navale (DCN) and assigned to build an Agosta submarine at Karachi Shipyard, will now have to wait even longer to be able to return to Pakistan.

According to an announcement made on Thursday by the French Foreign Affairs Ministry, its diplomats posted in “zones of risk” like Pakistan are being asked to reinforce security.

The decision will mean, sources said, that the DCN personnel — who had been scheduled to return this fall to work on an Agosta-90B submarine at Karachi Shipyard — will have to wait even longer before they are authorized to return to Pakistan.