‘Pakistan Navy meeting Indian Ocean security challenges’

Paper presented by Rear Adm Khan Hasham Bin Saddique at Galle Dialogue - 2011:

The maritime security challenges in Indian Ocean are both multidimensional and multifaceted and involve a host of non-traditional or non-military threats and challenges. Threats like maritime terrorism, drug trafficking and piracy have acquired trans-regional dimension. Besides, narco-arms and human smuggling remain rampant in the region and are further complicating the security matrix,

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Socio-economic scene

Whose vanity, whose sanity?

The inability of our bureaucracy to cope with the modern world was graphically illustrated recently at the conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, held at Waters Edge, Battaramulla.

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Need for regional body to match IO’s influence

The Indian Ocean is a region of growing strategic significance. The nations of this region are home to 2.6 billion people, almost 40 percent of the world’s population, accounting for 10 percent of global GDP - and rising rapidly. Its sea lines of communication are among the world’s most important - 40 percent of global trade passes through the Indian Ocean,

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