“They” are leaving in 2014. It will be time to spread Pakistani wings. Investments in the navy are crucial and important.
It is rumored that Pakistan is building a Nuclear powered Submarine. The next project will be an Aircraft Carrier. It is inevitable that Pakistan defends the Gulf and the sea lanes and its own interests.
A nuclear umbrella can be given to countries that allow Pakistani bases. Saudi Arabia is already part of the defense system
Pakistan has to build bases in the Asian Ocean, the Arabian Sea and the Sea of Karachi. Islamabad should stop calling the Ocean south of Karachi “Indian Ocean”
A picture is worth a thousand words. Here are proposed Pakistani bases. Pakistan has to convert the sea into the Asian Ocean. In order to do this, Islamabad has to work with the Chinese and Muslim nations in the Middle East and Africa.
Pakistan already has a secret base in Saudi Arabia. There should be listening posts and a Naval base in the UAE, and Oman, and possibly one in Yeman. There has to be a base in the Maldives and in the Comoros. There has to be a base in Oman and one possibly one in Lanka (most contentious). Lanka would ultimately relent, especially because Pakistan and China essentially saved the country from being bifurcated.
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