Did you guy's know that President Ayub in 1960s was least interested in the navy. His reasoning was sound. Pakistan has no seafaring tradition. Furthermore because of the geography of war between India/Pakistan sea plays no role whatsoever in the outcome. Attendant to this because of the disparity between population resouces between both [nearly 7:1] Pakistan has to use those limited resources in the most effective manner possible which used to be army/airforce. Today that has been superceded by nuclear forces.
The only way sea would be relevant is if Pakistan was -
- a trading nation
- a nation disposed to long wars - lasting year/years
- has most of the population living on the coast
Non of these are applicable. Pak is not a trading nation [ask FM Asad Umar], Pak cannot fight wars longer than weeks because either money or amunition runs out or guts to keep going on or stamina [mercifully neither can India] and only about 8% of the population lives on the coast. The core population lives in the north, thousand miles from thew sea.
India on the other hand has vast coastline, huge populations living on the coast, many ports, massive trade and juts out into the ocean in a V- shape. For this reason we can expect India given it's huge population also [second in world soon to be number one] to invest in naval power.
On the Pak side what I am rwading here is mostly fanboi's who talk of Alexnder when the only thing they know about him is he has a suffix 'Great' attached to his name, others out of misplaced pride.