Troops of Pakistan Army’s Karachi Corps are practicing in tactical drillsand procedures as part of exercise “Jidar-ul- Hadeed” in Thar Desert thatcommenced on January 28, 2021, said Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)in a statement issued on Saturday.
The military’s media wing said the four-week long defensive manoeuvreexercise is aimed at validating concept of defence in deserts.
“The exercise is being conducted in extreme desert conditions, 74kilometers ahead of Chhor, under conventional operations setting,culminating on February 28, 2021,” read the statement.
On Friday, a week-long multinational naval exerciselink by Pakistanlink in the Arabian Sea, a move thatcould set the tone for its enhanced bilateral relations with many countries.
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With the participation of some 45 countries in Aman-2021 from February11-16, including the US, Russia, China, and Turkey, the drill – a biannualaffair since 2007 – began with a flag-raising ceremony.
Significantly, this is the first time Russia has joined a military drillwith NATO members in a decade. The last such time was in 2011, in the BoldMonarch 2011 exercise link the coast ofSpain.
