Ten Pakistani sailors seized aboard the MT Honour 25 — a Palau-flagged oil tanker hijacked off the coast of Somalia — have now been held for nearly two months, with their families warning that the men's health is deteriorating rapidly. Relatives gathered outside the Karachi Press Club, organised by the Islamist political party Jamaat-i-Islami, to protest what they described as government inaction, saying the crew has been surviving on plain boiled rice, has run out of clean water and medicine, and includes at least two diabetic crew members. The Pakistani government has said it cannot negotiate directly with the pirates and must instead work through the ship's owners, but families allege those owners have yet to come forward, leaving the hostages' fate unresolved.