Thousands of weapon containers entered Karachi in tenure of MQM's minister

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Re: Thousands of weapon containers entered Karachi in tenure of MQM’s minister

@Ajju

^ You are spoiling the fun of some people here, Dopple. A little number crunching will show the absurdity of this claim.

A shipping container can be 45’ X 8’ X 9.5’ = roughly 3,000 cubic feet. Average AK-47 rifle is roughly 4.5’ X 6" X 2" = less than 0.5 cubic feet. So, one shipping container can carry up to 6000 rifles. So, 19000 containers can hold 114,000,000 rifles. Leaving a bit of 10% room for packing, this still means about 100 million AK-47 rifles could be lost here! This is probably more rifles than the entire Pakistan army or the NATO force in Afghanistan. I think the Ranger general has exaggerated his story a little bit. Off course one would not expect all 19000 containers to be filled with rifles but it gives an idea of how much arms and ammunition can be fit in 19000 containers.

The Rangers have been stationed in Karachi for decades now (since 1990?) and are equally to blame for the current situation in Karachi. Perhaps this is a face saving attempt by the general or just plain prejudice.

the US has refuted the claim that 19,000 containers got lost/missing.