KARACHI: Federal Minister for Defence Pervez Khattak has said that the current maritime threats and emerging geo-strategic situation is posing new challenges and risks to the stakeholders in the Region. The situation will provide constructive dialogue and develop a collective mechanism, this he said while addressing as a chief guest at the concluding session of the 3-day International Maritime conference here on Monday. The conference was organised by the National Institute of Maritime Affairs (NIMA) under the auspices of Pakistan Navy as part of Multinational Maritime Exercise AMAN-19. The theme of the moot was “Global Geopolitics in Transition: Rethinking Maritime Dynamics in the Indian Ocean Region”. The defence minister said that the conference has provided a platform to the scholars as well as practitioners to deliberate on the contemporary maritime challenges and share understanding of the dynamics in the maritime domain.

Source: Pakistan Today February 11, 2019 18:02 UTC