Standing together for peace

Ms Hadiya Siddiqui
Advocating peace, Pakistan Navy has had the privilege of conceiving and hosting the AMAN series of exercise ever since 2007. The endeavor, which has played a critical role in boosting the morale of Pakistan Navy, encompasses multinational exercise with friendly regional and extra regional naval forces. The goal is to strengthen the ties, enhance compatibility and mutual understanding amongst navies to ensure efficient Maritime security in the Indian Ocean. Pakistan Navy, interacting with the all the participating navies through joint bilateral and multilateral exercises, has proudly been able to claim the growing stature of the exercise and the largest participation of representatives of about forty-one friendly nations – making it one of the    largest warfare exercises ensuring peace and stability in the world. Organizing biennially, the Exercise AMAN since 2007, the Seventhof the Multinational AMAN exercise series has been scheduled in February 2021.With the aim to build up Responses, Tactics, Techniques and Procedures against conventional and unconventional threats through strategic warfare planning, along with meticulous warfare serials at the sea like Naval Gunfire, VBSS, Anti-piracy, Operations, Combine Anti-Submarine Exercise, Communications, Boarding and Air Defence. AMAN series of exercises play an important role for formation of a joint strategy and consensus approach for the global maritime security. The basic purpose of the exercises include enhancement of professional expertise in capability of joint operations and regional peace and security. Naval forces from across the world will be participating in the AMAN Exercises with Pakistan Navy’s declared resolve of ‘Together for Peace.’ Pakistan actively condemns terrorism in the world and having suffered first hand vows to fight it. The words AMAN means “peace” in Urdu and the exercise invites to bring more than 45 countriestogether under one slogan “Together for Peace”. Though not only to eradicate terrorism and pledging peace and harmony in the region, the regional navies can ensure a smooth route to prosperity via trade, by strengthening multi-layered security cooperation and enhancing inter-operability in Naval Ops and cross culture interaction. Pakistan Navy believes in inclusive policy and if the world stands together, there will be great benefits for all. The Indian Ocean Region is experiencing swift geostrategic changes which have arose a number of challenges for Pakistan but have also provided many opportunities that promise a security improvement not only within Pakistan but also in the region at large. With regards to the strategic security environment being transformed by tectonic shifts in global maritime trade, the growth of maritime shipping indicates an increase in security requirements in and around these critical Sea lines of communications. Regional nations that heretofore have provided periodic coastal protection may find they must expand patrols from the Strait of Hormuz to Egypt’s Suez Canal, transiting between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean and down the east coast of Africa to secure the waterways. The Arabian Sea and Eastern waters would always be of immense importance and cannot be ignored. Hence, AMAN exercise also targets this particular aspect to warrant global Maritime security. Furthermore, to combat the design to maintain Maritime Superiority by certain countries, especially in Indian Ocean, Pakistan encourages the nations to join hands and equip themselves to face traditional as well as untraditional threats in the Sea. Maritime security challenges in the Indian Ocean are both multidimensional and multifaceted. Threats such as maritime terrorism, drug trafficking and piracy have acquired international dimensions. StymieingMaritime aspirations of conventional and unconventional threats, the AMAN exercise would help work against human trafficking, narcotics smuggling, and terrorism in the region. Underscoring the need for robustnaval presence cooperation between international navies is imperative for countering emerging threats. Mega projects offers multitude of regional and trans-regional economic  Even though such things are happening to beg as a profession continues to increase in the country. There are two major reasons for that First, the law is not enforced to counter the beggars and the socio-economic economic problems in the country continue to prevail due to which many people are forced into begging. The second major reason is that it’s linked to the behavior of our society as a whole. In our society begging has been tolerated historically mainly due to the religious association attached to assisting someone. People encourage begging by giving money to the beggars to obtain high religious merit and to attract prosperity in their own lives. In doing so they unknowingly give encouragement and a helping hand to the process in which many are being harmed and exploited. To counter this problem first we have to change our mentality regarding helping a beggar and consider the potential harms it is doing in society before unknowingly encouraging it. Secondly, the steps on the governmental level are needed that is to enforce laws properly that are made for the countering of beggary and steps should be taken to provide adequate jobs to the people who are forced in this profession due to unemployment. It would be the combined effort of people and government that would make visible effects in this regard and would make us able to eradicate this social evil from the country.