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Anti Smuggling Operations - Maritime Challenges and Security Concerns Maritime Domain can be interpreted as all areas and things of, on, under, relating to, adjacent to, or bordering on a sea, ocean, or other navigable waterway, including all maritime related activities, infrastructure, people, cargo, and vessels and other conveyances. Due to its complexity and vastness, Maritime Domain is particularly vulnerable to misuse and disruption by many entities such as individuals, organizations, and nation states. According to the statistics approx. 80 percent of the world’s population lives within 200 miles of the shoreline. Yet the vast majority of people are unaware on the importance of maritime domain and key role played by the shipping industry, which is largely hidden from view. Basically that because of lack of knowledge in that field and nations are not utilizing the available maritime resources effectively. It is observed that commonly there are no any effective mechani...

Security Perspective of South Asia Security of a country and region is tightly related to a whole array of its sustainable development facets. Struggles, conflicts, threatening economies and civilizations and enforcement of different powers irritating the sovereignty of individual states has become a notable strategy of global politics. In this context, South Asia has become a notable crisis region in the world. It is characterized by an interlocking web of old and new and traditional and non-traditional security risks. There are unresolved territorial disputes, proliferation of nuclear technology, a broad range of ethnic, religious, and non-state actors that have links to individual, regional and global terrorist groups connected with organized crimes. Moreover, the unpredictable repercussions of climate change, which could turn one of the poorest regions in the world into a pit of worst. Further, unsecured information and cyber network, financial and environmental insec...

Prosperity in Maritime Domain - Cooperated Maritime Security The prosperity in most of the nations depends primarily on international trade and investments. In accordance, world economy heavily depends on maritime trade and commerce for their economic growth and prosperity. No country is entirely self-sufficient and almost whole countries needs maritime commerce to meet their trade needs, even though a littoral state, an island or a landlocked country. According to the statics, Ninety percent of world trade and two-thirds of energy supplies are carried by sea. Therefore, maritime transport is backbone of global trade and the economy. The seas are enormous and complex, and it’s provide a substantial portion of the global population with food and livelihoods and are the means of transport for 80% of global trade. This trade routes are vulnerable and exposure to attack depends on their goods or materials of transporting. Therefore, international commerce is at risk in the majo...