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Curtain-raiser Event for the AMAN Dialogue 2025

The National Institute of Maritime Affairs (NIMA) and the Pakistan Navy co-hosted the curtain-raiser for the AMAN Dialogue 2025. The event, a prelude to the biannual AMAN Exercise 2025 (scheduled for February 7–11, 2025), focused on this year's theme, “Secure Seas – Prosperous Future” and on fostering global maritime collaboration. NIMA unveiled the AMAN Dialogue logo, emphasizing secure seas, peaceful coexistence, and sustainable maritime progress.

Pakistan Navy is holding its biannual event, AMAN Exercise 2025, on 7-11 Feb 25. This year the pinnacle of the AMAN Exercise is the holding of AMAN Dialogue 2025, in which global maritime leadership, practitioners, academics, and industrialists will deliberate strategies to meet the common challenges in the maritime domain with the theme “Secure Seas – Prosperous Future.” The National Institute of Maritime Affairs (NIMA), being the cohost, held a curtain-raiser for AMAN Dialogue 2025, offering a comprehensive overview of its objectives and significance.

Dr. Baber Bilal Haider, VP NIMA, shared the purpose of the dialogue and underscored the importance of holding such an event. On the occasion, NIMA unveiled the AMAN Dialogue logo, which depicts a new dawn of hope and collaborative progress, lighting the path toward a secure and prosperous maritime future. It also shows the importance of navies’ crucial role in protecting sea lanes, emphasizing peaceful coexistence, healthy ecosystems, & shared responsibility. The main theme of the logo is to propagate the necessity of fostering a secure & prosperous future.

AMAN Dialogue prelude

While taking the questions, Vice Admiral Ahmed Saeed, President NIMA, emphasized the importance of strengthening maritime partnerships and advancing sustainable development, while also highlighting the media’s pivotal role in disseminating the dialogue’s message to broader audiences. The event concluded with a “vote of thanks.” The event was well attended by representatives of the academia & media community, including print, electronic, and social media.

AMAN Dialogue

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NIMA is a premier maritime-related think tank of Pakistan, which undertakes analysis and evaluation of National and International Maritime issues and policies in order to recommend solutions to advance the maritime interest of the country. NIMA is also focusing on spreading awareness about the importance of the maritime sector.