US violates int’l laws: moves USS Enterprise near Gwadar

[Ali_Syed]

Re: US violates int’l laws: moves USS Enterprise near Gwadar

@mAd_ScIeNtIsT

Ummmm… 65-70 Nautical miles is well outside of Pakistani territory. Pakistan’s territorial waters end 12 nautical miless off the coast under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea that Pakistan is party to.

65-70 miles falls under the Economic Exclusion Zone, meaning that US or even Indian Warships are permitted to enter but are not allowed to extract any natural resources such as oil or fish.

That the journalist behind the original article did not actually check what the definition of territorial waters is, is sadly yet another sad example of the terrible depths to which the quality of Pakistani journalism has sunk.

Thanks for the info, really appreciated.