{"id":74993,"date":"2018-08-08T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=74993"},"modified":"2018-08-08T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T12:51:00","slug":"pak-navy-effectively-protecting-seaborne-trade-naval-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=74993","title":{"rendered":"Pak Navy effectively protecting seaborne trade: Naval Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\">\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">Islamabad, Aug. 8 (TNS): Chief of Naval Staff Adminral Zafar Mehmood Abbasi says Pakistan Navy plays a pivotal role in protecting seaborne trade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">In a statement, he said large oil exports take place through Pakistan&#8217;s maritime limits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">The Naval Chief said vast reserves of oil and gas are present within Pakistan&#8217;s sea frontiers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">He said 90 percent of Pakistan&#8217;s trade takes place through sea and economy of a country is destined to destruction if its seaborne trade is halted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">The Admiral said enemy is hell-bent to weaken us by flaring up internal differences. He said Pakistan is a big country and a nuclear power and it should get its mettle acknowledged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">He said Pakistan Navy also plays an important role in peacetime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">He stressed the need for further intensifying research in the maritime filed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">Zafar Mehmood Abbasi said China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a vital agreement Islamabad has signed after Indus Water Treaty water accord with New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">He said CPEC will change fate of Pakistan. He ruled out any threat of Tsunami to Gwadar.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Aug. 8 (TNS): Chief of Naval Staff Adminral Zafar Mehmood Abbasi says Pakistan Navy plays a pivotal role in protecting seaborne trade. In a statement, he said large oil exports take place through Pakistan&#8217;s maritime limits. The Naval Chief said vast reserves of oil and gas are present within Pakistan&#8217;s sea frontiers. 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