Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Naveed Ashraf visited Naval Ships
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Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral
Naveed Ashraf visited Naval Ships at sea, creeks areas on the coastal belt of
Sindh and coastal areas of Baluchistan to oversee the conduct of Exercise
Seaspark 2024 and meet the deployed troops in the exercise.
Exercise Seaspark 2024 is a major
maritime exercise of Pakistan Navy which is regularly conducted after every two
years on two force concept ie Blue Force (own force) and Orange Force (enemy
force).
Purpose of the exercise is to plan
and conduct naval operations as per wartime procedures to check operational
readiness, major mobilisation of personnel and practice coordination between
various elements of PN to undertake complex operations.
During operations at sea PN warships
and aircraft also detected Indian Navy ships, submarines and aircraft,
attempting to covertly observe the exercise and interpret PN war plans.
Accordingly necessary safeguards were taken by PN.
During visit of Maritime Headquarters
at Karachi, Chief of the Naval Staff was given a briefing by the Orange and
Blue Naval Force Commanders on the conduct of operations by respective forces.
Thereafter, Naval Chief visited Keti Bandar Post and
Battalion Headquarters of Pak Marines at Shah Bandar where he was briefed on
combat readiness for defence of Creeks areas which constitutes the South
Eastern maritime boundary with India. During the visit, Naval Chief interacted
with troops deployed in difficult marshy areas and appreciated their devotion
and high morale.
Later on Naval Chief also visited
Jinnah Naval Base at Ormara and Naval Ships operating at sea. During these
visits CNS expressed his satisfaction on the professional excellence, high
morale and perpetual readiness of Pakistan Navy to ensure impregnable maritime
defence of motherland and reaffirmed the resolve of Pakistan Navy to safeguard
national maritime interest.
