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EDITORIAL

Navy Journal, since its inception, has been a reservoir of knowledge and wisdom
of dimensions of naval profession and beyond. It epitomizes some excellent
pieces of theses beckoning the intellectual pursuit by a bunch of brilliant naval
officers. They have exhibited their specialized knowledge and professional
experiences of empirical research and philosophical insights in literary form in
their articles. Officers, amid the hustle and bustle of busy schedule in day to day
service, have inculcated their thoughts and diversified ideas through research
activities involving intrinsic values of innovation. We hope the inquisitive
readers will definitely find sources as food for thought in these writings.
The objective of the journal, as the writers expect, is to keep the mind of readers
and researchers engaged in the enormous possibilities of diversified area of naval
profession as well as national and international perspective of various sorts.
Prudent writers have furnished their views and opinions for the curious readers
with demonstrative presentation. We hope the resourceful articles embedded in
this journal will stimulate a sense of inspiration and gratification for the young
naval leaders and other readers as well to enrich their horizon of knowledge and
benefit them with thought provoking ideas to grow research ability for
enhancement of professional excellence.

The editors have left no stone unturned to make this journal textually and content
wise refined, complete and a presentable one. Despite all of our relentless effort
to make the journal error free, it is usually not unusual to have some
unintentional flaws and shortcomings as being printing ghost in a mammoth
professional publication like it. We, the editorial board, hope that our wise and
valued readers will consider these flaws and foibles as inadvertent ones out of
their gracious gesture. However, we welcome our esteemed readers and feel
obliged to accept any constructive criticism for the improvement of the
publication with sincere gratitude and admiration.
The editorial board hereby express their sincere gratitude with humble
submission to the Chief Patron Rear Admiral M Abu Ashraf, BSP, ncc, psc for
his valuable advice and genuine guidance for publishing the journal in a befitting
manner. We duly acknowledge the whole hearted and spontaneous cooperation
and initiatives of all concerned for timely publication of this ‘Navy Journal
2019’. May Allah bestow us enough strength and spirit to serve the nation with
zeal and enthusiasm for a better future ahead.

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