CAIRO – Pakistan is attending the Egyptian-US joint military exercise knownas the “Bright Star” at a military base in Alexandria, Egyptian mediareported.
The military exercises include land, naval and air forces from Egypt, theUnited States, Britain, France, Italy, Greece, Saudi Arabia, the UnitedArab Emirates and Jordan while Lebanon, Rwanda, Iraq, Pakistan, India,Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, SouthAfrica, Senegal, and Canada will observe the drills.
Designed to strengthen military and security cooperation among theparticipating countries, the drills will help participating countries indeveloping their operational and training methods in counter-terrorism andnon-conventional warfare.
Moreover, the exercises will also train the participating nationsin medical evacuation, anti-mining operations and the latest methods ofcountering threats to maritime security, and develop expertise in planningand implementing joint aerial operations.
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General Hisham Al-Halabi who is a military advisor at the Nasser MilitaryAcademy said, “We are looking at manoeuvres that began big and strong andwhich have continued to grow in terms of the numbers of participants, thetypes of training exercise and the kinds of arms and training programmesused.”
He added, “Egypt has equipped the Mohamed Naguib Base with state-of-the-artfacilities. It has outstanding capacities for coordinating between andhosting a large number of participants from different branches of othercountries’ military forces.”
