Anees Hafiz

The Writer is an engineering management professional and the Author of Pakistan`s Defence & Nuclear Doctrine

Naval & Military Operations Unconventional Approaches

The rapidly changing and developing geopolitics around IOR and Gulf/Arabian Seas raise some serious challenges and concerns for Pakistan navy for protecting Pakistan’s seaward interests. Some challenges were mentioned before in recent articles like handling Indian hegemony, preventing maritime terrorism, Seaward Economy considering China Pakistan Economic Corridor and Protecting 290,000 Square kilometer stretched extended exclusive…

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Managing Afghanistan (Part 2)

In my last article on the subject, I had elaborated some measures to be taken to manage Afghanistan in a more strategic and collaborative way. The said measures were, inter-parliamentary delegations exchange, engagement with Central Asian States for influencing Kabul regime, infrastructure development support, managing land locked status for transit trade, encouraging and leveraging the…

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Pakistan’s Naval Power Sea Control

As discussed in previous articles on the same subject that current economic and geo political scenario elaborates a huge role for Pakistan navy that has the responsibility to safeguard the economic and security interests of Pakistan in light of CPEC project for maritime commerce, protection and exploration of Pakistan’s Exclusive Economic Zone plus extended continental…

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Pakistan’s Naval Power

Pakistan’s strategic location and its predominant critical and geographical proximity have made it a natural attraction for regional and global players in the current changing political paradigm. Being located in the globe adjacent to the most important and busy maritime trade routes like the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al Mandab, its further connection with…

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Pakistan – GCC Relations

Historical Overview Pakistan’s strategic location, its predominant religious affinity, critical geographical proximity as well as continuous efforts by Pakistani expatriate population to develop infrastructure and other institutions have made it a natural ally of the neighboring Gulf States. There are socio-political factors that make Pakistan the obvious choice for the Gulf rulers to safeguard security…

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Pakistan’s Naval Power

Historical Overview The traditional military set ups and doctrines in the Middle east, Central Asia and the Subcontinent were laid out on land based forces and war operations were carried out mainly considering this unilateral land based approach. Many historic warriors like Gangis khan, Taimurlen, the subcontinent Mughals were adopting and depending mainly on land…

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