Maritime Cooperative Continuum Pakistan Navy's Evolving Maritime Security Concept

摘要

The maritime scene in the Indian Ocean remains in a state of flux due to occasional tensions among the regional states. Conspicuous naval activity is indicative of the Ocean's primacy among the other oceans of the world. "Strategic maneuvering" of the great powers, as claimed by the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies in its report 'Maritime Future of the Indian Ocean (2010)', coupled with rising maritime crimes, as reported by UNODC in the Indian Ocean makes it the geostrategic centre of gravity. Pakistan has taken full stock of the emerging maritime milieu and launched an initiative of 'Regional Maritime Security Patrols', better known as RMSP in 2018. The main purpose of RMSP would be to ensure safety and security of sea lanes from where majority of Pakistan and regional countries' commerce passes through. RMSP, as the name suggests, could extend maritime security to other countries of the region.