From Fishing Boats To Ballistic Missiles: How One Pakistani Nearly Armed Houthi Terrorists With Iran's Deadliest Weapons

A fishing vessel carrying Iran’s deadly weapons. A Pakistani smuggler who called himself a “walking dead man.” And a US military operation in the Arabian Sea that stopped missile parts from reaching Houthi terrorists — but cost two Navy SEALs their lives.

This is the story of Muhammad Pahlawan, the Pakistani arms trafficker who nearly shifted the balance of power in the Middle East, until the US stopped him.

Muhammad Pahlawan, 49, has been sentenced to a staggering 40 years in a US prison after being convicted on five grave charges in a case that exposed a high-stakes weapons-smuggling operation designed to arm Houthi militants in Yemen with ballistic missile components from Iran. The Pakistani arms trafficker orchestrated a daring plot that used fishing boats to transport some of Iran's