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At Sea With Indian Muscle? Naval Build-Up Puts Pakistan On The Back Foot As West Coast Witnesses High Surveillance
Swarajya Staff
Mar 19, 2019, 11:51 AM | Updated 11:51 AM IST
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Rising military tensions between Indian and Pakistan post-Pulwama suicide car bombing led the Indian Navy to swiftly redeploy its frontline assets to the north Arabian Sea for operations, setting aside a major exercise in the Indian Ocean region, reports Hindustan Times.
HT quoted a Navy statement as saying the redeployment would involve aircraft carriers, nuclear-powered attack submarines and frontline warships and maritime aircraft putting Pakistan Navy on the backfoot.
The report also quotes experts and senior navy officials saying that such an arrangement is a first-of-its-kind since 'Operation Parakram' following the December 2001 terror attack on Parliament.
“Overwhelming superiority” forced the Pakistan Navy to remain deployed near the Makran coast and not venture out in the open ocean, the Navy reportedly said in its statement.
“It is interesting to see the scale reflected in the navy’s statement. But one imagines that what may not and cannot be said is what worries our enemies more. That serves to deter, which is not bad at all,” Military affairs expert Rear Admiral Sudarshan Shrikhande (retd) was quoted as saying in the report.
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