Pakistan’s National Institute of Maritime Affairs (NIMA) has reportedly warned that, in a crisis, India could execute coordinated strikes on key Pakistani naval facilities—including Jinnah Naval Base at Ormara (commissioned on January 22, 2000), PNS Makran at Pasni, Karachi-area installations, and forward sites such as Jiwani—to rapidly degrade Pakistan’s maritime posture. The assessment aligns with India’s expanding sea power: the indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant entered service on September 2, 2022; New Delhi simultaneously launched a submarine, a destroyer and a frigate in January 2025; and in April 2025 the Navy moved to acquire 26 Rafale-M carrier fighters to bolster maritime strike capacity. Pakistan has been fortifying coastal defenses and strike options in response—testing the Zarb land-based anti-ship cruise missile in 2019, fielding the ship-launched Harbah (first tested January 3, 2018), and demonstrating a sea-based second-strike option with the Babur-III SLCM on January 9, 2017. NIMA’s warning thus underscores the need for Pakistan to harden dispersed infrastructure along the Makran coast, integrate coastal anti-ship batteries and naval aviation, and improve resilience at Karachi while leveraging Gwadar-area command structures—aimed at complicating Indian targeting and preserving credible deterrence despite India’s modernization momentum.