Pakistani strategic concern
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CISS (Center for International Strategic Studies, Pakistan) · Pakistan · Quad foreign ministers launch Indo-Pacific maritime surveillance network from New Delhi
Pakistani strategic think-tank reads the IPMSC as destabilising South Asian stability: frames it as an anti-Pakistan maritime encirclement alongside India's IOR basing expansion and the US P-8I presence; calls for China-Pakistan naval cooperation as a counterweight.
“The IPMSC, combined with India's Andaman expansion and the US P-8I footprint, creates a maritime encirclement that directly affects South Asian strategic balance.”