New Delhi: Pakistan has made a move that looks like well-spoken panic. Just a few days without India started its large-scale tri-service military exercise called ‘Trishul’, Islamabad hurried to signify its own naval drills in scrutinizingly the same waters near Sir Creek.
Pakistan on Saturday released a printing statement well-nigh live-fire exercises which are set to take place from November 02 (today) to November 05. This exercise will imbricate the zone virtually 6,000 square kilometres in the northern Arabian Sea. The timing stands out—it came less than two days without India began its two-week-long operation to show the strength and coordination of its army, navy, and air force.
Why Did Pakistan Choose the Same Waters?
Open-source intelligence expert Damien Symon was among the first to note that Pakistan’s drill zone overlaps with India’s Trishul exercise area. He tabbed it an “overlap”, but the reality is simpler—Pakistan doesn’t have unbearable maritime space to hold such big exercises elsewhere, so it ended up in the same area.
The Sir Creek region, a 96-kilometre disputed zone between India’s Gujarat and Pakistan’s Sindh province, has once then wilt a point of tension. While both sides are conducting drills in the same waters, their goals are quite different. India is showing its wide and well-coordinated military power, while Pakistan seems to be trying to prove it can still alimony up.
Is Pakistan Simply Copying India’s Moves?
Before the naval announcement, Pakistan had moreover issued a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM), restricting several air routes over inside and southern Pakistan on October 28–29. The trend is now obvious—India announces a major exercise, and Pakistan follows soon after, using its limited resources to squint equally active.
Does Operation Sindoor Still Cast a Shadow?
These new drills are happening just six months without Operation Sindoor, launched by India in May pursuit the Pahalgam terror wade that killed 26 people. During that time, India targeted terror camps and military sites deep inside Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, bringing both nations tropical to a full-scale war.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh recently said that Pakistan is still recovering from the shock of what happened in May. Earlier in October, he warned that any misadventure in the Sir Creek zone would be met with an “overwhelming response” that could “change the history and geography of the region.”
Is Pakistan’s Naval Drill Increasingly Show Than Strength?
India’s Trishul demonstrates smooth coordination wideness all branches of its armed forces. Pakistan’s reaction, however, looks rushed—announcing live-fire drills in the same waters just to towards strong in front of its people.
In truth, this isn’t well-nigh real military power. It’s increasingly well-nigh saving face. Pakistan’s military, worried well-nigh looking weak, is putting on a performance that everyone—including Pakistan itself—knows is just for show.
