Somali pirates: ‘Ransom to be paid this week’

The Somali pirates will be paid the $2.1 million ransom by either Wednesday or Thursday.


Express May 30, 2011

KARACHI: The Somali pirates will be paid the $2.1 million ransom by either Wednesday or Thursday, Ansar Burney told Express News on Sunday. All arrangements have been made in collaboration with officials in Yemen and Egypt. Burney will leave Dubai for Cairo on Monday (today) and transfer the ransom to the account of the shipping company. He hoped that the Pakistani hostages would be released soon, but the pirates have not given any date for a release.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 30th, 2011.

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