Pakistan Navy begins maritime exercise to test combat readiness
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
The Pakistan Navy commenced a major maritime exercise in the metropolis on Wednesday to test combat readiness against threats.
The opening brief of the maritime exercise, named SEASPARK-2026, was presided over by Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Naveed Ashraf and attended by senior officers from other branches of the armed forces.
“The exercise rigorously tests Pakistan Navy’s combat readiness against conventional and emerging maritime threats, integrating ships, submarines, aircraft, unmanned systems, marines, special forces and joint Army and Air Force elements,” said a statement issued here.
It added that the exercise focuses on rehearsing multi-domain operations by “integrating maritime, air, land, cyber and space-enabled capabilities”, as well as operations in the information environment to “secure decisive advantage in the information battlespace” alongside kinetic operations at sea.
Earlier, the naval chief also visited fleet units of the Pakistan Navy and reviewed ongoing operations.
Speaking on the occasion, he stressed that the evolving security environment demands “uncompromising readiness, enhanced tri-service integration, adaptability and effectiveness across physical and information domains”.
Reference Link: https://www.dawn.com/news/2027023
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
