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INTRODUCTION 1. Pakistan Navy is a four dimensional force of Pakistan, but was neglected due to

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INTRODUCTION
1. Pakistan Navy is a four dimensional force of Pakistan, but was neglected due to unawareness of political think tanks of Pakistan regarding the geopolitical importance of Pakistani coastal belt and the due role of Pakistan Navy in its best utilization. Pakistan navy nowadays is going through major and effective changes in order to rise as a regional force. Since the birth of Pakistan, Navy has proved its effectiveness and efficiency at all times.
2. Pakistan Navy has a defined mission and Vision to defend its Exclusive Economic Zone, offshore economic resources, Sea Lines of Communication and to protect its merchant fleet which is important for the trade of Pakistan, as most of the trade of Pakistan is through the sea. In …show more content…

There is an almost preoccupied focus on shielding the critical port and defusing the prospect of a probable blockade. Also by dispersion of its operational bases, the PN perhaps escalates that it would be in a position to threaten Indian entrance to the oil supply routes. In the two decades since 1990, the overall policy seems to undergone a qualitative change, in terms of the added emphasis on principles of more positive sea control. Apart from the three fundamental areas mentioned above, the navy now seems to be focusing much more on practical measures to control the waters in its immediate locality.
DYNAMIC CONTROLLER OF SEA-LANES
6. PN at present, does not merely endeavor to deny the Indian navy control of sea lanes close to its coasts, but keenly control the sea passageways themselves. At the same time it is evolving the capability to prohibit the flow of Indian maritime trade in critical sea lanes closer to Indian coasts.
PROTECTION OF ENERGY-LINES
7. With over partial of the world crude oil being exported through the choke point from the Strait of Hormuz, Pakistan can still not afford to neglect the security of energy lines. Pakistan realizes that given the sky rocketing prices of oil, entrance to the supply routes would be critical for energy hungry nations like Japan, China and India. It thus appears focused on enhancing its naval footprint by setting up naval bases along its coast. This would also

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