Pak Navy to commence drills from next month

ISLAMABAD: 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.