Pak Navy to commence drills from next month

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Pakistan Navy, in a bid to ensure the security situation in the region, announced to conduct War Game Exercise Shamsheer-i-Behr IV in the next month keeping in view India’s new concept of war, Geo News reported Tuesday.

According to Pak Navy, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani would inaugurate these war games on July 12.

It should be mentioned here that these drills have been worked out keeping in sight the Indian concept of war. The exercises would include mastering various war strategies like the possibilities regarding circumstances of confrontation and jumping to retaliatory action.

The War Game is designed to revalidate Navy’s operational concepts and evaluate new ones in the backdrop of emerging trends in regional and geo-strategic environment.

Last Shamsheer-i-Behr exercises were organized in 2007.

According to Navy spokesman, the 5th Corps of military and Southern Command of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) have also been incorporated in the war games.


Pak Navy to commence drills from next month - GEO.tv

 

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Pakistan Navy war game



KARACHI, July 12 (APP): The opening session of Pakistan Navy war game Shamsheer-e-Behr IV held here on Monday.

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani was the chief guest of the event. A Navy press release said that speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister underlined the significance of war games in military planning process and said in todays’ fast changing world, regular conduct of war games to evolve new concepts and doctrines is extremely important.

He lauded the realistic stock taking, exhaustive analysis and objective decision making of the Force Commanders who earlier presented their detailed plans.

Earlier, on his arrival at the venue, the Prime Minister was received by Chief of the Naval Staff along with the key naval commanders.

Deputy Chief of Naval Staff Operations, Vice Admiral Abbas Raza, then presented an overview of the war game outlining objectives set forth and concepts to be tried.

He particularly stressed on the significance of naval base at Gwadar for ensuring an impregnable defence of motherland and relevance of Pakistan Navy under new and emerging challenges.

He added that being a tri-service event with representation of relevant ministries, Shamsheer-e-Behr IV is the Flag ship war game of Pakistan Navy that is held biennially to try various concepts which are then validated in subsequent Navy-wide field exercise before being developed into naval strategy.

The event was attended by a large number of high ranking Armed Forces officers besides civil bureaucrats and representatives of ministries.