DECODING PAKISTAN’S PASNI PORT OFFER TO THE US “ Leveraging foreign presence on its soil to enhance own security, is an old ploy of Pakistan, as discernible from ceding the Trans-Karakoram Tract comprising the Shaksgam Valley to China in 1963, followed by formalising Chinese control over Gwadar port operations in 2013, and now proposing operational control and development of Pasni port by the US .” – Col RS Sidhu Backdrop The May 2025 Indarmy launched Operation ‘Sindoor’ against Operation ‘Bunyan ul Marsoos’ of Pakistan military has turned out to be a watershed event in the series of military confrontations between the two warring adversaries. Its impact goes beyond that of the 1971 war, that led to carving out Bangla Desh by severing the spatially separated eastern half from Pakistan. Operation ‘Sindoor’/’Bunyan ul Marsoos’ lasted for 90 hrs, but its geopolitical reverberations are transforming the strategic landscape in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). The deep precision ...