Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Ishaq Dar announced on Monday that the three remaining Pakistani crew members of the hijacked tanker MT Honour 25 had been successfully rescued and flown to Addis Ababa with assistance from Pakistan's Embassy in Djibouti. The rescued crew members were identified as Imran Ali, Muhammad Yasin, and Syed Husain Yousuf, who are expected to depart for Karachi on the first available Ethiopian Airlines flight anticipated on October 7.

Dar expressed gratitude to the Government of Somalia and the European Union Naval Force Operation Atalanta for their cooperation in securing the release, reaffirming Pakistan's commitment to combating maritime piracy. The rescue followed the arrival of a special aircraft in Karachi on Sunday carrying four injured Pakistani crew members and the mortal remains of three killed sailors, received by Sindh Governor Nehal Hashmi and provincial ministers Saeed Ghani and Syed Nasir Hussain Shah.

The injured crew - Usman Ghani, Aqeel Khan, Ameen bin Shams, and Yasir Khan - along with the bodies of Rafiullah Khan, Syed Kashif Umer, and Mahmood Ahmad Ansari, arrived aboard Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 694. The Palau-flagged MT Honour 25 carrying 10 Pakistanis among 17 crew members was seized by Somali pirates on April 21 off Puntland, leading to a rescue operation by Puntland authorities that freed the vessel and captured 16 pirates while resulting in five deaths and four injuries prior to the raid.