Pirates Have Taken Over

The last words Yasir Khan spoke to his wife before the line went quiet. Eight days later, no Pakistani government body has established contact with the Honour 25 or the ten men aboard it.

Mehwish was on the phone with her husband Yasir at 4:30 in the afternoon on April 21 when the line went strange. He said the words quickly, the way a person does when there is no time left: pirates h…