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| File:File:Vice Admiral Hasan Hafeez Ahmed.jpg | |
| Office | Chief of Naval Staff of Pakistan Navy
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| Term start | 3 March 1972 |
| Term end | 9 March 1975 |
| Predecessor | Muzaffar Hassan |
| Successor | Mohammad Shariff
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| Born | 1926Template:Rp[1] |
| Born | Multan, Punjab, British Indian Empire Template:Small |
| Died | Template:Death year and age |
| Place of death | Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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Vice-Admiral Hasan Hafeez Ahmed (Urdu:حسن حفيظ احمد; b. 1926-8 March 1975Template:Rp[2]), Template:Small, usually shortened to H.H. Ahmed, was a senior Pakistan Navy officer who served as the first Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) of Pakistan Navy from 1972 until his death from sickness in 1975.[2]
Despite appointed to the four-star appointment, he was retained at the three-star rank and took over the command of the Navy from its Commander-in-Chief Vice-Admiral Muzaffar Hassan who was dismissed from the military service.
Biography
Hassan Hafeez Ahmad was born in Multan, Punjab, British India, in 1926.Template:Rp[1] He was educated in a local school in Multan and was a contemporary of Mansoor Shah who would later join the Pakistan Air Force in 1947.Template:Rp[3]
After his high school graduation in 1943, he joined the Royal Indian Navy as a petty officer and participated in World War II.Template:Rp[3] In 1945, he joined the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, England where he graduated in 1947.Template:Rp[1] Upon returning to British India, he joined the Pakistan Navy and was commissioned as a Sub-Lieutenant.Template:Rp[1] He continued his training with the Royal Navy and specialized in technical naval courses from the United Kingdom in 1947-49.Template:Rp[1]
In 1964, he attended the Joint Service Defence College in Latimer Buckinghamshire, England, and subsequently graduated with a joint staff degree in 1965.Template:Rp[1] Upon his return, he was posted in Ministry of Defence as an undersecretary as a Director of Naval Operations and participated in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965.Template:Rp[1] After the war, he was posted to the Pakistan Embassy in Washington D.C. as a military attaché which he remained until 1966.Template:Rp[1] In 1970, he was appointed as the first commandant of the Pakistan Naval Academy as a Commodore and was appointed as Commander Coast in 1971 as a Rear-Admiral. Template:Rp[1]Template:Rp[4]Template:Rp[5]
After participating in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 he continued to serve as commander of the coastal defense command but demoted to Commodore in the Navy.Template:Rp[6] In 1972, he was elevated as the first Chief of Naval Staff after the dismissal of Muzaffar Hassan. He was the most junior officer and superseded five senior's including three Rear-Admirals and two Commodores.Template:Rp[7]
As a naval chief, his task was to reconstruct and rebuild the navy into a formidable force.Template:Rp[8] In a short spa of time, he transformed the Navy into three-dimensional force when he commissioned the naval aviation and commissioning the new Navy NHQ in Rawalpindi in the vicinity of Army GHQ in 1974.Template:Rp[8]
On 8 March 1975, he died from sickness unexpectedly while serving as naval chief and commanding the navy, at the age of 49.Template:Rp[9] He was the first of two chief's of staff who died in the office- the other being General Asif Nawaz.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 World military leaders{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Bowker(1974). ISBN 9780835207850
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Military & Politics in Pakistan, 1947-1997{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Sang-e-Meel Publications(2000). ISBN 9789693511482
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Gold Bird: Pakistan and Its Air Force—Observations of a Pilot{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Oxford University Press(2002). ISBN 9780195797725
- ↑ War in the Indian Ocean{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Lancer Publishers(1995). ISBN 9781897829110
- ↑ The Sinking of INS Khukri: Survivor's Stories{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Roli Books Private Limited(December 2006). ISBN 9789351940999
- ↑ Ayub, Bhutto, and Zia: How They Fell Victim to Their Own Plans{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Sang-e-Meel Publications(2000). ISBN 9789693510805
- ↑ The Ideals of Bhutto{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. National Book Foundation(2008)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Friends Near Home: Pakistan's Strategic Security Options{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. AuthorHouse(27 November 2006). ISBN 9781467015417
- ↑ Template:Cite magazine
External links
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