{"id":35544,"date":"2017-12-07T21:22:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T16:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35544"},"modified":"2017-12-07T21:22:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T16:22:23","slug":"pakistan-hands-over-command-of-ctf-150-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35544","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan hands over command of CTF-150\u00a0to Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Karachi, Dec. 7 (TNS):<\/strong> Pakistan has handed over command of the multi-national naval maritime security and counter-terrorism coalition named Combined Task Force 150 (CTF-150)\u00a0to Australia, says a statement issued by Pakistan Navy.<\/p>\n<p>Rear Admiral Naveed Ahmed Rizvi gave the reins of\u00a0CTF-150 \u00a0 to\u00a0Commodore Malcolm KM Wise OAM of the Royal Australian Navy in a change of command ceremony held at the\u00a0Headquarters Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) in Bahrain on Thursday, according to a statement.<\/p>\n<p>While\u00a0speaking on the occasion, Rear Admiral Rizvi, the outgoing Commander CTF-150, highlighted the threat of terrorism transcends national boundaries\u00a0which requires combined response from all stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CMF has proven that it provides a framework to ensure global and regional maritime security while acknowledging the individual concerns and sensitivities of member countries,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The outgoing commander\u00a0went on to say that the unity and the willingness of the nations is the real strength of the coalition and this provides the Commanders of the CTFs a unique opportunity to command a rainbow of sea platforms and staff.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was presided over by\u00a0Vice Admiral John Aquilino, USN, Commander US Fifth Fleet and Commander Combined Maritime Forces. Dignitaries and military officials were also present on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi, Dec. 7 (TNS): Pakistan has handed over command of the multi-national naval maritime security and counter-terrorism coalition named Combined Task Force 150 (CTF-150)\u00a0to Australia, says a statement issued by Pakistan Navy. Rear Admiral Naveed Ahmed Rizvi gave the reins of\u00a0CTF-150 \u00a0 to\u00a0Commodore Malcolm KM Wise OAM of the Royal Australian Navy in a change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,23],"tags":[145,589],"class_list":["post-35544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-karachi","category-national","tag-karachi","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35546,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35544\/revisions\/35546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}