KARACHI: Miscreants attacked a radar station in Pasni on Saturday, keeping it under their control for almost an hour and killing a security agency guard. They left only after the security forces were deployed to wrest the place from them.

No militant group came up with any claim about the attack till we went to press.

The Balochistan coastal town of Pasni, 365km west of Karachi, has an international airport, a fish harbour and is flanked by Gwadar on the west and Ormara on the east. Pasni airport is a few kilometres outside the town and the radar is perched on a hilltop at some distance from the airport.

This radar covers a distance of several hundred nautical miles and handles air traffic coming from the Middle East.

Civil Aviation Authority spokesperson Abid Kaimkhani said the radar equipment had not been damaged and was functioning normally.

Although the Navy has a presence in the area, its spokesperson was unable to shed light on the incident.