<?xml version="1.0"?>
<oembed><version>1.0</version><provider_name>Daily Lead Pakistan</provider_name><provider_url>https://leadpakistan.com.pk/news</provider_url><author_name>Web Desk</author_name><author_url>https://leadpakistan.com.pk/news/author/edt/</author_url><title>Maritime Security and Multilateral Collaboration</title><type>rich</type><width>600</width><height>338</height><html>&lt;blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="9ja7hvOTEs"&gt;&lt;a href="https://leadpakistan.com.pk/news/maritime-security-and-multilateral-collaboration/"&gt;Maritime Security and Multilateral Collaboration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://leadpakistan.com.pk/news/maritime-security-and-multilateral-collaboration/embed/#?secret=9ja7hvOTEs" width="600" height="338" title="&#x201C;Maritime Security and Multilateral Collaboration&#x201D; &#x2014; Daily Lead Pakistan" data-secret="9ja7hvOTEs" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
/* &lt;![CDATA[ */
/*! This file is auto-generated */
!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&amp;&amp;d.addEventListener&amp;&amp;"undefined"!=typeof URL&amp;&amp;(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&amp;&amp;!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i&lt;o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i&lt;a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&amp;&amp;(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3&lt;(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r&lt;200&amp;&amp;(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&amp;&amp;(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&amp;&amp;n.host===r.host&amp;&amp;l.activeElement===s&amp;&amp;(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r&lt;s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document);
//# sourceURL=https://leadpakistan.com.pk/news/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js
/* ]]&gt; */
&lt;/script&gt;
</html><description>Ayesha Ishmal The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) has become a focal point of strategic importance in the 21st century. Increasingly viewed as the emerging centre of gravity in geopolitics, the region is pivotal to international trade, energy security, and maritime security. As Alfred Thayer Mahan, the renowned maritime strategist, once stated, &#x201C;Whoever controls the Indian [&hellip;]</description></oembed>
