BAHAWALPUR: The country’s ever largest and comprehensive military exercises “ Azm-e-Nau-3” Sunday entered the second day on the eastern borders with the demonstration of ‘Dispersal Techniques’ by the troops in ‘battle-like’ situation.

The exercises, to continue till May 13, are being participated by the soldiers numbering more than 20,000 belonging to all arms and services.

Commander Southern Command Lt. Gen Khalid Shamim visited the drills areas in Bahawalpur at the start of the second day of the exercises.

The ongoing exercise is the culmination of yearlong training process in light of the directives of Chief of Army Staff Ashfaq Parvez Kayani who had declared 2009-10 as ‘Year of Training’.

To provide the troops the real “ feel of battle ground, the troops have been divided into two groups, namely Blue Land and Fox Land with the former as defendant and the latter as adversary. A Heavy Anti-Tank battalion of Blue Land demonstrated the Dispersal Techniques in Cholistan desert sector and demonstrated the capabilities operating Armored Personnel Carrier (APC).

Other supporting units including Tanks, Infantry, Artillery Guns, Anti-Aircraft, Engineers, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Signals and others are also actively taking part in the exercises.

The teams, being commanded by a battalion commander, rolled out the camouflaged APC within minutes and moved to the ‘battle field.’

The exercise is a culmination of a long and deliberate process of war games, discussions and logistic evolution of “ Concept of Warfare” that is fully responsive to a wide menu of emerging threats.

This is a concept validation stage of the operational thought to be manifested in the form of tactical, operational and organizational aspects which would be validated and refined through the lessons learnt.

The process commenced with Army War Games named Exercise AZM-E-NAU-2, conducted in February 2010.

PAF’s ongoing exercise namely “High Mark 2010” would be fully integrated with Army Field Exercise.