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'''PNS ''Muhafiz''''' was an [[Adjutant-class minesweeper|''Adjutant''-class minesweeper]] of the [[Pakistan Navy]].<ref name=shiphist>{{cite web |url=http://shipbuildinghistory.com/history/smallships/minesweepers3.htm |title=Minesweepers MSO MSC MSI MHC MCM Post-War |publisher=Shipbuildinghistory.com |date=2011-12-23 |access-date=2012-04-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120228194133/http://shipbuildinghistory.com/history/smallships/minesweepers3.htm |archive-date=2012-02-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was built by the United States for transfer to Pakistan.<ref name=shiphist/> PNS ''Muhafiz'' was sunk by a missile from {{INS|Veer|K82|6}} of the [[Indian Navy]] during the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]].<ref name=navsource/><ref name=shiphist/>

[[PNS Zulfiqar (K265)|PNS ''Zulfiqar'' (K265)]] of Pakistan was also damaged beyond repair by friendly fire from aircraft of the [[Pakistan Air Force]] (PAF) which mistook her for a missile boat of the [[Indian Navy]] during the same war.<ref name="bharat">{{Cite web| url=http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NAVY/History/1971War/44-Attacks-On-Karachi.html| title=Trident, Grandslam and Python: Attacks on Karachi| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090926174134/http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NAVY/History/1971War/44-Attacks-On-Karachi.html| archive-date=26 September 2009| df=dmy-all}}</ref> India also lost {{INS|Khukri|F149|6}} in this war.<ref name=russellphillip>{{cite web|title=The Sinking of INS Khukri|url=http://www.russellphillipsbooks.co.uk/articles/ins-khukri.php|work=Society of Twentieth Century Wargamers Journal.|publisher=russellphillipsbooks|access-date=20 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326015444/http://www.russellphillipsbooks.co.uk/articles/ins-khukri.php|archive-date=26 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="navalforces">[http://www.spsnavalforces.net/mn_mulla.asp] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313093601/http://www.spsnavalforces.net/mn_mulla.asp |date=13 March 2012 }}</ref>

==Operation Trident==
{{Main article|Operation Trident (1971)}}
During the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]], The minesweeper PNS ''Muhafiz'' was tasked to patrol the approaches to port of Karachi. To do so it was deployed on the inner cordon.

Late that evening on 4 December 1971, around 70 miles south of Karachi, the {{INS|Veer|K82|6}} detected a large [[Pakistan Navy]] target, later identified as the ''Muhafiz'' on patrol to its north. ''Veer'' launched a single [[SS-N-2]] ''Styx'' missile on the target, sinking ''Muhafiz''.<ref name=in-t2tchap10>{{cite web |url=http://indiannavy.nic.in/t2t2e/Trans2Trimph/chapters/10_1971%20wnc1.htm |title=Chapter-10 |publisher=Indiannavy.nic.in |access-date=2012-04-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120223133540/http://indiannavy.nic.in/t2t2e/Trans2Trimph/chapters/10_1971%20wnc1.htm |archive-date=2012-02-23 }}</ref> It was later learned that at 23:30 the ''Muhafiz'' was hit by Styx missiles, and sank in the Indian Ocean at about 23:35.

Other vessels of the [[Indian Navy]] strike group sank the Pakistan Navy [[destroyer]], {{ship|PNS|Khaibar|1956|6}} and the merchant ship {{MV|Venus Challenger||2}} (carrying navy personnel and ammunition for Pakistan),<ref name=in-t2tchap10/> and caused irreparable damage to the destroyer {{ship|PNS|Shah Jahan|DD-962|6}}.

== See also ==
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* [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]]
* [[Timeline of the Bangladesh Liberation War]]
* [[Military plans of the Bangladesh Liberation War]]
* [[Mitro Bahini order of battle]]
* [[Pakistan Army order of battle, December 1971]]
* [[Evolution of Pakistan Eastern Command plan]]
* [[1971 Bangladesh genocide]]
* [[Operation Searchlight]]
* [[Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts]]
* [[Military history of India]]
* [[List of military disasters]]
* [[List of ships sunk by missiles]]
* [[List of wars involving India]]
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110407095823/http://www.defence.pk/gallery/auxiliary-ships/p12223-pns-muhafiz-mine-hunter.html PNS Muhafiz]



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[[Category:1954 ships]]
[[Category:Ships built in Bellingham, Washington]]
[[Category:Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]]
[[Category:Minesweepers of the Pakistan Navy]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in 1971]]
[[Category:Shipwrecks in the Arabian Sea]]

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