FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin Families of Pakistani crew members aboard the hijacked oil tanker MT Honour 25 protested in Karachi on 13 May, demanding the release of their relatives who were seized by Somali pirates. The Palau-flagged tanker was captured on April 21 near Somalia’s Puntland region with 17 crew members onboard, including 10 Pakistanis. Relatives say conditions onboard are worsening, with sailors reportedly surviving on boiled rice once a day and drinking dirty tank water after supplies ran out, Reuters reports. RelatedNews IMO MSC 111 convenes amid maritime security tensions and push to finalize MASS Code Iran expands its operational area in Hormuz var jnews_module_21372697_0_6a058e119b393 = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21372697","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"280,27,2172","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagination_scroll_limit":0,"ads_type":"disable","ads_position":1,"ads_random":"","ads_image":"","ads_image_tablet":"","ads_image_phone":"","ads_image_link":"","ads_image_alt":"