Earlier in year 2015 the security of Gwadar port was entrusted to the Pakistan Navy. The task has since been conscientiously executed via an agile and efficient Marine battalion of the Navy. Sited roughly 635 km from Karachi and 120 km from the Iranian border by road, Pakistan’s strategic port of Gwadar constitutes what may…
This article is dedicated to the valiant officers and men of the Pakistan Navy who continue to demonstrate unconquerable courage and stand as an impregnable wall both at sea and ashore against the sadistic and callous architects of terrorism. “If anyone slew a person unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the…
Pakistan Navy’s biennial exercise Shamsheer-e-Bahr started during the last week of July and concluded in August 16. The exercise is a major conceptual undertaking and extends for nearly seven weeks. It is founded on contemporary and prospective maritime security threats and challenges confronting Pakistan. The exercise enables Pakistan Navy to abstract possible response options to…
On August 12, 1973, the National Assembly elected Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as the country’s Prime Minster. A month later, on September 19, the elected Prime Minster arrived at the White House on a state visit. In warmly greeting the visitor, President Nixon declared, ‘the independence and integrity of Pakistan is a cornerstone of American foreign…
The term maritime security essentially implies being safe against all forms of sea based threats, including threats from non-state actors and the conventional state based forces. The concept is not only vast but multidimensional. It spans conventional maritime security issues, like state sovereignty concerns, territorial disputes, to more non-traditional maritime security problems such as piracy,…
For much of South Asia and the region surrounding the Indian Ocean, the New Year began on an inauspicious note. The respite following the sudden sojourn of the Indian PM to Pakistan last December and brief engagement with his counterpart in Islamabad was short lived. The terror attack on the Indian airbase at Pathankot in…
The US based influential Foreign Policy magazine recently reported that India is building a top secret nuclear facility in its Southern state of Karnataka (formerly Mysore) to produce thermonuclear weapons. Located in the city of Challakere, about 260 km from Mysore on India’s western coast, the facility is expected to be completed by 2017. It will upgrade India’ nuclear…
“I am ashamed of what is going on in India today”. This is how the celebrated Indian Booker prize winning author Arundhati Roy described the prevalent conditions in her native country early this month. Ms. Roy returned her national award she won in 1989. In doing so, she joined the ranks of over twenty other Bollywood…
“Jis se jigar-i-lala ma thandakho wo shabnam,daryaoon ke dil jis se dahel jainwo toofan,har lehza hai momin kee nayee shaan nayee aan”(so breathtaking as to produce the sublime feeling of dew in the depths of heart;so awesome as to make the storms in ocean tremble). This is Iqbal’s portrayal of a ‘momin’ (guardian of faith)….
“India has aggressed and is waging an all-out war against Pakistan. Our brave comrades in the Pakistan Army and Pakistan Air Force have already given the enemy a telling answer and inflicted heavy blows. The Nation stands solidly behind the Supreme Commander and the Armed Forces. I call upon all officers and men of the…
