The Pakistan Navy is one of the more powerful and experienced navies indigenous to the Indian Ocean. It has played its part in ensuring peace and co-operation in the Indian Ocean Region and continues to strive do so. Though on an individual basis, it is the main guarantor of stability in the northern reaches of…

Much has been written about how the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project will turn Pakistan’s fortunes around merely by being a transit for raw materials and energy resources to western China. There is the notion that Gwadar will become a ‘new Dubai’, a glimmering El Dorado on the shores of the Arabian Sea and the…